Life Trade - a short story

[WatchAdam]

I'm new to the forum and thought I'd share one of my short stories with you all.

This one is called "Life Trade". http://www.adambenderwrites.com/2013/01/06/life-trade-short-story/

It's about an online match-making service that lets someone permanently trade places with someone else! Sort of light sci-fi in the style of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Hope you enjoy.

[Jubal]

I really enjoyed this! I felt like I wasn't getting all the references - never having indeed seen, let alone heard of, Eternal Sunshine - but I thought it was a very neat short story indeed. I wasn't sure (which I quite liked as an effect) whether there was really an authorial stance on LifeTrade, it neither came across as "Yay brave new future" or "Sci-fi idea DESTROYS EVERYTHING", which are the two extremes that short sci-fi stories very often tend to end up at. For a lot of it I was sort of expecting the main character to choose to trade lives at the end; it had a sort of build of inevitability which was side-stepped quite gracefully.

[WatchAdam]

Thanks!! I have a new story about the same concept coming soon, which I hope to eventually share with you all. It's called "A LifeTrade Wedding" and is about a groom leaving his bride at the altar but finding a replacement for himself.