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Becoming April - A Cozy Contemporary Gender-Bender.

Becoming April - A Cozy Contemporary Gender-Bender.

by Taylor Paige

Sci-fiContemporarySlice of LifeDramaFemale LeadSci-fiContemporarySlice of LifeDrama
Rising Stars:Contemporary #39

"I'd heard of changelings before. Who hasn't? After the alien ship crashed in the mountains of New Mexico about ten years ago, random people started coming down with Changeling Fever and coming out of it . . . changed. Some with mental powers like telepathy or telekinesis. Others with physical changes like complete regeneration of all injuries, or even full biological rejuvenation to bring them back to their prime of life. But me? A sixty-year-old man with a heart condition, I passed out from the pain of the change and woke up a teenage girl.  Exit David Ross, whoever he was, and enter . . . April? So now I've got to figure out how to become a new person, stay unnoticed (changelings are not popular with a lot of people), and rebuild my life. It would be impossible if not for the help of my next-door neighbors, the Seevers. Instead it's become an adventure for all of us, but what's almost the worst thing about all this? I've got to go back to school."WARNING: While sex is not the focus of the story, Becoming April has been given an Explicit Sexual Content label for a reason; sexual biology and sexuality are treated frankly and there is self-discovery, explicit language and references, and a single very explicit sex scene. If such subject matter is objectionable to you, give April's story a pass. For prospective readers; Becoming April has been described as "cozy" and a "slice-of-life" story, and although it does contain personal drama it is far from an epic fantasy. The story is FINISHED at 42 chapters, 90,000 words. The final chapter of Becoming April was posted 12/22/25 and it will be published on Kindle in '26, but April's story is ongoing so I'm now posting the chapters of Finding April here as I write them. Thank you to everyone who has enjoyed April's story and provided me valuable feedback! TP

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OverviewEngagementProseChapters
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109
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FVR
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Rating
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Ratings
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Reviews
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Total Chapters
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Chapter Analysis
Word counts and prose metrics for each chapter
#TitleWordsFK GradeDialogueSSPVariation
0Chapter One - Avoid drowning in your tub.0----
1Chapter Two - Meet the Seevers.0----
2Chapter Three - Still on the rollercoaster.0----
3Chapter Four - Hygiene, hygiene, hygiene.0----
4Chapter Five - Dressing Skipper.0----
5Chapter Six - So, yeah, that happened.0----
6Chapter Seven - A Seevers breakfast.0----
7Chapter Eight - Way too much information.0----
8Chapter Nine - And women do this annually?0----
9Chapter Ten - Feeling small.0----
10Chapter Eleven - Seriously, what the hell?0----
11Chapter Twelve - Being April Seever.0----
12Chapter Thirteen - Hey, self-examination is a thing.0----
13Chapter Fourteen - There's no girl-gene for shopping.0----
14Chapter Fifteen - Hell to the no.0----
15Chapter Sixteen - I'm going to what?0----
16Chapter Seventeen - She's no Mary Poppins.0----
17Chapter Eighteen - Emergency redecorating.0----
18Chapter Nineteen - Definitely no Mary Poppins.0----
19Chapter Twenty - Wanton acts of literature.0----
20Chapter Twenty-One - "Oh Mrs. Thompson, what big ears you have."0----
21Chapter Twenty-Two - How?0----
22Chapter Twenty-Three - An explanation? Sort of?0----
23Chapter Twenty-Four - Shark Week.0----
24Chapter Twenty-Five - Dammed hormones!0----
25Chapter Twenty-Six - So boys are chocolate.0----
26Chapter Twenty-Seven - Get ready to party.0----
27Twenty-Eight - Queen Dees and Hemingways.0----
28Chapter Twenty-Nine - Really? I mean, really?0----
29Chapter Thirty - Adventures in poetry.0----
30Chapter Thirty-One - Sunday school sex-ed.0----
31Chapter Thirty-Two - "Tomorrow's a big day!"0----
32Chapter Thirty-Three - First day of school.0----
33Chapter Thirty-Four - The trauma of locker rooms.0----
34Chapter Thirty-Five - ". . . What."0----
35Chapter Thirty-Six - Revelations.0----
36Chapter Thirty-Seven - Everything's different, everything's the same.0----
37Chapter Thirty-Eight - . . . I've got nothing.0----
38Thirty-Nine - So that went well?0----
39Chapter Forty - So confused.0----
40Chapter Forty-One - And things were going so well.0----
41Chapter Forty-Two - It's Monday and . . . I've got this?0----
42Interim Post - Post-Mortem 0----
43Interim Post 2 - Character Sketches.0----
44Finding April, Chapter One - How do you accidentally get a date?0----
45Finding April, Chapter Two - Your mission, should you choose to accept it . . .0----
46Finding April, Chapter Three - Humans are human resources, right?0----
47Finding April, Chapter Four - What are we going to do tonight, Brain?0----
48Finding April, Chapter Five - "And one more thing . . ."0----
49Finding April, Chapter Six - Mirrors still suck.0----
50Finding April, Chapter Seven - "You're a changeling, Papa."0----
51Finding April, Chapter Eight - Not-so-full disclosure.0----
52Finding April, Chapter Nine - Oops.0----
53Finding April, Chapter Ten - The Ship of Theseus.0----
54Finding April, Chapter Eleven - This ship has sailed.0----
55Finding April, Chapter Twelve - The rollercoaster.0----
56Finding April, Chapter Thirteen - Conquering water and working on the rest.0----
57Finding April, Chapter Fourteen - What. Really, what.0----
58Finding April, Chapter Fifteen - So we're doing this?0----
59Finding April, Chapter Sixteen - Jumping.0----
60Finding April, Chapter Seventeen - Why, God? Why?0----