joshslater

Uber Lift

I think morphs are like CGI, you only notice the bad ones. This was such a great image I had to write a little something for it, which I guess technically makes it a caption. Then, when trying to find a high resolution version of it I discovered that it's actually a morph. And once you find out, you wonder why you didn't see it right away. It's so obvious.

Uber Lift

I was slowly piecing together reality. We had “just one more beer”, ordered an Uber and then blacked out in the back seat. The bright light outside the car was agonizing to my hangover. Why was it already morning? It felt like my mind was working half speed. The first indication that something was wrong, really wrong, was the heavy breathing. My breathing. It was surreal looking down and see that...

Non-Minkowski Space

I've been thinking about the concept of someone travelling into the future and immediately being apprehended as a threat to society because of him just being a riddled with long since cured diseases. In the process of "curing" him they would just bluntly fix things that would be considered cosmetic today. I think I made the method of actually travelling needlessly plausible, but that's what happens when you think about something for too long.

Again, lots of different options for photo. ...

Non-Minkowski Space

Human Trial #1 -00:01:00

One minute left. My mind was racing. This must have been what the first astronauts felt. Any small error and it would be over for them, only that I had it worse. This was all my invention, my design, my engineering. It was all on me. Not an army of the best and brightest of the country, pouring over every calculation, assumption, circuit and weld to find flaws.

But I’ve sent literally hundreds of probes already. I’ve tested every element on the periodi...

Exchange Student

Ethan: And smile!
*click*
Ethan: Good enough. I guess someone is nervous to start school tomorrow.
Brad: I should be working on my thesis, not reciting south American capitals in junior high. Again.
Ethan: You’re missing the point. Again. You are working on your god awful personality. You missed that last time around puberty.
Brad: So I make you a little sad and you, somehow, force m...

Upon Reflection

It looked like parts of someones eviction. Just a scattering of junk piled up against the chest high wall along the street. A broken chair, a damp mass of cloth, possibly bed sheets that had seen better days, ripped up cardboard boxes that once held someones Wish order. Trash.

Just next to it, to the side, leaning against the wall, was a hall room mirror. I almost walked right past it, but some...

Ronnie the Pool Boy

I wanted to make my own rewrite of this story as I thought the wife reaction was a bit unnatural. Sure, she might call the cop on an unknown intruder, but sooner or later she would understand it was the husband. But if she understood it right away, and then abused it, it would make for a more forced reality ending.

Original Story

After his wife stopped having sex with him because she thought that they were 'too old now', Ronald decided to take alternative measures.  He'd he...

Ronnie the Pool Boy

Ronald was excited, and more than a little aroused, as he opened the package. This should shut her up about him being ‘too old’ or ‘out of shape’ for sex, he thought as he eyed through the contents slip from the box. It sure was a shit load of money. He had ticked all the boxes in the order form on the web site. All the extras. He got the money after all. And now, ten days later, he held in h...

Paradise, AZ

“Until death do us part”, “as long as we got each other”, “love is what home feels like, if it was a person”. I always thought they sounded cheesy and naive. Don’t get me wrong, I married out of love. We had a wonderful wedding were we invited everyone who were important to us, friends and family. Then straight to honeymoon. All inclusive Caribbean cruise, perfect suite, perfe...

Rehabilitation

Another case of not being sure what image to use. I wanted him to look young, depressed, in hi-viz gear, dirty and not yet having developed any muscles. I also was leaning towards UK, as a more plausible location for some Clockwork Orange shit, though the text pretty solidly points to US. Sure, throwing in a someone hot and muscles is more appealing, but doesn't really fit with the vibe. These were the other photos I was considering.

2019-11-20 03:16:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Rehabilitation

 - I’ll fucking what?!
- This is your final warning, Mr. Sullivan. One more outburst like that and I’ll hold you in contempt.
- But, your honor, how is reducing my intelligence not “cruel and unusual” punishment? It’s permanent mutilation. You are literally using neurotoxins.
- White collar crime is the most costly for our legal system, and anything we can do to lessen the bur...

Hypothetical #5

It’s impossible to miss them. The group of eight dudes being rowdy in the corner of the joint, cramming themselves around tables designed for people demanding far less space. All of them were decent looking, muscular guys, so perhaps they were celebrating a win at some game. They were loud, they were laughing, and clearly they had something going on. They weren’t trying to be obnoxious or intimid...

Hypothetical #4

There is that nagging feeling that something is off, as you go through your normal routine coming back from work. Walking through the living room you almost miss him, as he sits completely still and silent on the floor. You freeze and just stare. The boy is muscular, tanned, fit and groomed, but totally naked save for a pair of compression shorts. He is sitting on all four, staring down into the floo...

Final Answer

Just before we reached the stairs he grabbed me, pulled me towards him and positioned us in the hallway. He looked into the full length mirror in the hallway.

- Hey kid, take a good, long look at us. You’re young, handsome, athletic. Perhaps a bit skinny, but I could tell someone to help you with that. Some coaching and you’d have twice the muscles in a year. I’d even set that up for free...

Mystery Malware

I realized at some point at the start of the year that discord and grindr both had icons that shared a lot. I had no idea what to do with that information, and just filed it away in the observation storage. Half a year later it had been nagging me, so I photoshopped together a discord application icon with the logotype replaced with the grindr icon and dumped that in a discord channel, hoping that wo...

Mystery Malware

 WASHINGTON (Associated Reporting) - Multiple sources within the intelligence community voice concerns about the lack of public response to the ongoing cyber/psyops attack facing the nation. The sharp uptick in incidents over the past two weeks has lead to multiple and independent government leaks. “It’s crazy that no public warning has been issued”, says one source in cyber command, who w...

Trust Fall

This was based on a story by the tumblr write collegenerdtojock. I don't like memory alterations, as I think that cheapens the impact of a transformation. I decided to write my story post transformation, whereas this one is before.

Original Story

 Coming from a pretty strict and upper-class Jewish family, I just never envision that one day I will experience something like this. I mean, who would’ve thought that they would look completely different with barely any surgery ...

Trust Fall

 - Yo.
- This is Rachel Cohen, is this Shaun West?
- Yes, mum. Stop doing this charade every time. I got the new body. I got the new identity. I got in on the diversity quota. I’m doing my classes and activities just as we agreed. No one is going to spy on me. No one even know it’s possible to change a body like this. Why are you calling on a weekday anyway?
- Have you been watching...

A Week in Indiana

This all started out in a chat where someone was trying pretty hard to get me to fly to him. I didn't really take the offer all that serious, but it was fun to think about it. What could happen? So I started to write a trip more or less how I would have planned it, and then threw in some plausible transformation. My first idea was to just have a single thing. I've never written about nipple enlargement, so lets do that. Have the hypno-stuff be completely ineffective. Perhaps throw in a haircu...

A Week in Indiana

I was exhausted. It’s weird, because on long haul travel you have done nothing but relaxing. First on the initial connection, then at the airport, then at the trans-Atlantic from Amsterdam to Chicago. I even napped a bit on it. Since that flight follows the earth's rotation, you basically land at the same time as you start. Queues, immigration, wait for luggage, customs, relax some more at O’Hare. Finally followed by a decidedly less comfortable regional flight to Indiana, wait for luggag...

Heirloom Chronivac

As I stood there, unable to move, I went over the conversation in my head, over and over. There were so many things I could have done better. So many more precautions I could have taken.

- This is it. The Chronivac. I don’t know where the name came from. It doesn’t say that anywhere on it.
- But you said it has been in your family for generations. This looks like something designed by Ap...

A Night Tale

The first time was in fourth grade. As unbelievable as it sounds I don’t remember the title of the book, but it was just some library book with a bunch of scary stories. I had tingles down my spine while reading it, and made sure to be properly tucked in before turning off the light. I didn’t have any problems falling asleep, but then I had the worst nightmare I’ve ever had. It was like I was l...

Alan fucking Brown

Alan let out a sigh of relief as he read the text message. He’d been nervous he’d killed Jeff ever since Jeff locked himself in the gym bathroom just after lunch. The transformations are usually much more subtle. Some sudden fatigue, a quick nap, and one problem less to deal with. But he had seen this complication happen twice before. Johnson and whoever that guy in finance was, both had a quite ...

Hypothetical #3

Already after the first Hypothetical I was afraid there wouldn't be any more. I didn't want it just to be an endless series of photos of clothes with slight variations of copy. This photo was however too intriguing for me to skip. I have more clothes set photos, but I'm not going to use them unless I get a good idea.

2019-11-17 01:32:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Hypothetical #3

You can see from the dim daylight that it is early. Earlier than you normally wake up. While you feel rested, you also feel hot, clammy and thirsty. You are wondering how come you woke up before the alarm went off. Are you getting sick? But wouldn’t you then just sleep through the alarm instead? It’ll all reveal itself in due course, you decide, and get up to have a piss and some cold water.

Hypothetical #2

This story was first written as someones first person experience on a commuter train. My goal with the hypothetical series is to attempt to remove as decision making as possible from me and instead present just a scenario. About one day after I published the story "Train of Thought" I realized that I would rather have it as an hypothetical, so I did a small rewrite and published it, This is the original...

Train of Thought 

Your concentrated news reading bursts as he plop d...

Hypothetical #2

He startles you as he plop down across the aisle. Tall, muscular, well groomed, but dressed like he didn’t expect to meet anyone he cares about. There are plenty of other seats on the train at this hour, so you didn’t expect anyone to take a seat near you. He doesn’t seem to give a shit about public transportation etiquette, nor any concerns for others for that matter. He’s not clumsy exactly...

got skyep?

He had been almost annoyingly insistent all evening, asking my nationality, age, background, work. At first I was evasive, without lying. He was undeterred though, and kept at it. We moved over to Discord. What countries had I been to? When was I there the last time? Prodding and prodding. He was a sloppy writer and I got the feeling that he was quite young, though probably smart. To be honest I enjoyed answering many of his questions. Remembering past work experiences, past vacations, and pa...

The Performance Review

So I did a bit of digging in old conversation logs.

I was talking with realhankmccoy in the tumblr chat when he suggested a collab. Since I like his material enough to have done a rewrite of a few of his stories, I already knew that there were areas we both liked to explore. We pretty quickly settled on forced or accidental muscle growth. We didn't want it to be too fantastical. There would probably be magic or scifi, but we wanted to at least try to get the mechanics, motivations and e...

The Performance Review

I don’t like being in the company gym, and I don’t really need to.  I’m a trim guy, if not quite dorky or nerdy, and I’m rather work-oriented.  But I know there are benefits to regular physical activities, and our firm has a strong fitness initiative, so here I am anyways. Unfortunately so is Alan fucking Brown.

I have no idea how he managed to climb this high in the company. ...