“If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?” —Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk
If you asked A this question, they’d tell you that it was a done deal. For A has no fixed body, no set identity, no normal daily routine. Every day, A wakes up inhabiting a different body corresponding to A’s approximate age. For six thousand days and counting, A has flitted from one person to the next, borrowing their life for twenty-four hours. A has been male and female, black and white and Asian and Hispanic, straight and gay and lesbian and transgender, jock and nerd, scholar and junkie. A tries not to disrupt the lives they’re briefly assuming, but sometimes, things happen. Even though A has access to necessary memories and experiences, and is an expert at playing along with friends and family, sometimes, there are disruptions. And then A finds a reason to try and carve out a life for themselves. A falls in love.
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