body swap · reality warping · sci-fi artifact · mysterious origin · psychological thriller · memory alteration · magical item · neutral object · plot device · urban fantasy
Morning light glints off a sliver of brushed metal abandoned on the sidewalk. You crouch and lift it—a remote, sleek and weighty, its face marked with four stark labels: BODY, HEAD, CLOTHES, LIFE. Your thumb drifts toward the power button. The air around you thickens, charged with latent possibility. You understand, instinctively, that you will be the sole keeper of the before. What do you choose to alter first, you?