Recently I've found a new author to enjoy over at MC Stories and The Changing Mirror.
Grace Fairway's work involves F2F transformations and usually sees a straight-laced lady being entranced and enticed into a new subculture. I'm always a big fan of clothes based transformations and her stories so far have involved not a direct clothes swap in some cases but clothes with history, clothes that have been worn by another and they look like it. Descriptions of stepping into laddered tights and pre-worn pants, for example, sound like putting on another person's skin and therefore their persona especially the smell which usually involves cigarette smoke and the protagonist taking up the habit themselves. The story A Case for the Lawyer involves just that - a lawyer finding a mysterious suitcase full of clothes that look like they belong to a hooker and a particular one at that...
All too often as well the either the changer or the changee are unlikeable. Sometimes the person being changed is so loathsome or the life they then are forced into seems a bit mean for what is sometimes a minor misdemeanour or attitude while the person doing the changes just seems go overboard in their smirking cruelty. I recall a 'humiliation conga' story I read years ago about a man whose life is completely ruined with next to no way out of a horrific situation and all because he was a mild chauvinist and, while I know some would enjoy this a lot, it left me cold and I do think about it now and then when regarding stories of similar ilk. One thing that drew me in to Grace's work was the story The New Housemate which has just concluded and sees lesbian goth Alice moving in with straight laced Amy and making her the same. Amy never seemed to mean and Alice was a pleasant character, a world away from the moody goths of some stories I've read. Each to their own of course, some stories fit others better.
Anyway, one I keep coming back to is Our Girl in Blue, which sees a police officer investigate some illegal raves and encountering a group of cybergoths.
Our Girl In Blue by Grace Fairway
Grace's other work on MC Stories can be found here: https://mcstories.com/Authors/Grace-Fairway.html
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