Metamorphosis

By B.A. Daniels

President Albert Fieldcrest is coming off a successful first term and is engaged in a campaign for his second term. Touted as one of the finest orators of our time he shocks the crowd when he freezes during a speech.
Jimmy Kelton is nineteen, living with his mom, and has no plans for the future. Jimmy has a job flipping burgers and is satisfied if he can make enough to score a little smoke. Jimmy almost loses that job when he freezes on the sandwich board.
Somehow the two of them have switched bodies and they both just want their lives back.

• Language: English
• Publisher: B.A. Daniels
• Release date: Aug 8, 2015
• ISBN: 9781386926931

B.A. Daniels

I love to write and have written short stories for as long as I can remember. However, it wasn't until a few years back that I decided to publish my stories. My writing has always been one of my main creative outlets, and I find that I enjoy sharing my stories almost as much as I like writing them. My first novel, Deception Game, came out in 2013. I have always been fascinated by anything that was police procedural, including TV shows and books. So, my first novel was a police procedural. My wife and I of 25 years make our home in the Pineywoods of East Texas. We have two grown children. It is my sincere hope that you get as much enjoyment from reading my books as I do in their creation.

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Metamorphosis

B.A. Daniels

Published by B.A. Daniels, 2015.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

METAMORPHOSIS

First edition. August 8, 2015.

Copyright © 2015 B.A. Daniels.

ISBN: 978-1386926931

Written by B.A. Daniels.

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Akron, Ohio — Friday, October 3 — 3:00 PM

A hush fell over the crowd that just two minutes earlier had been whipped up into a frenzy by the man on stage. That man was Albert Theodore Fieldcrest and he was President of the United States. Now, he hadn’t spoken a word in the last two minutes. He was frozen in place and his hands were gripping the podium so tightly his knuckles were beginning to turn white. This was the man that Time magazine had called the greatest orator of our time. Yet, he seemed speechless.

The president looked first left, and then right. Assistants were waving their arms at him to get him going again. No one wanted to go get him off stage lest he look weak right in the middle of a reelection campaign. Another minute passed without a word from the most powerful man in the world.

A decision was finally made that someone would have to go get him. A mad scramble was made to go get Mrs. Fieldcrest off the campaign bus and onto the stage to get the president. Buttoning her coat as the Secret Service ferried her back to the stage she finally made it to the apron of the stage. Plastering a smile on her face she walked onto the stage to roars of the crowd.

Walking up to the president she draped an arm over her husband’s shoulders as she waved to the crowd. Leaning toward the microphone she adjusted it to her height.

I’ve been married to this man for over twenty years and the one thing I’ve never seen him is speechless, she laughed. So Akron you see history. The president is so overcome by your welcome that he can’t go on, she laughed once again and now the crowd started applauding. Thank you so much for your warm welcome and remember to take this enthusiasm to the voting booth in November!

Hey, you’re the first lady, said the president.

Yes, and you’re the president, and now that we all know who we are, let’s get off this stage, she said with a smile.

"Whoa, wait, did you say I’m the president?"

Albert, yes you’re the president but not for much longer if you don’t quit messing around.

After pulling him off the stage, Mrs. Fieldcrest got shuffled to the side as the president’s personal physician and Secret Service agents took charge of him. Her own detail moved her along and soon she was in the limo with her husband and they were headed back to Air Force One.

What the hell happened out there, Albert?

Why do you keep calling me Albert?

Oh, I don’t know because it’s your name.

Mr. President, do you know what day and month it is? asked the physician.

And why does everyone keep calling me the president? It’s Friday, October third, doc. I tell you what though if this is a joke someone’s gone all out, he laughed looking down at the blue suit he wore.

What’s wrong with him Roger? she asked the doctor.

I don’t know. We need to get back to Washington and I’ll run him through a full checkup.

No need for that doc. I feel fine. Tip-top shape. Never felt better.

Sir, I’d beg to differ.

What the...is that Air Force One? Okay, now I know, this is a dream. Has to be.

The motorcade stopped and they