Charlie said, exhaling cigarette smoke and looking around, noticing that he was speaking somehow strangely. And it wasn't just that his voice was higher. It was obvious and he even expected it. No, he sounded different - his words seemed to sound different. It was as if he was speaking a different language, although he perfectly understood everything he was saying.

Although the fact that Charlie spoke in a different language and in an obviously female voice bothered him, he was partly prepared for it. But what he didn’t like was that he had no idea how long he was stuck here this time. He knew that smoking a cigarette would take him somewhere now. This has already happened several times.

...

It all started after Charlie went to see a strange gypsy woman. She insisted that she had a way to get Charlie to quit smoking. And saying something in an incomprehensible language, she laughed and left. Charlie remained perplexed and the first thing he did was decide to smoke. And this was the first time he understood what the fortune teller meant.

After smoking for the first time, Charlie noticed that he had changed. His penis disappeared and his body became leaner and weaker. But everything else remained the same - his clothes and even his hairstyle. This was noticeable only to him. Everyone else around was convinced that Charlie had always been Charlotte's girl. Even his wife thought so. Within an hour, Charlie truly seemed to have entered an alternate reality in which he was a girl in a lesbian relationship. But an hour later everything came back.

Warily lighting a second cigarette, Charlie already knew what effect was possible, but was not sure. And having decided to check, he only became convinced that he did not need to do this. Now everything was only worse. His masculine clothes were replaced by the feminine clothes of a housewife. He was still in a lesbian relationship and even had the same job as before. However, after the second cigarette, he stayed in this life longer, almost a day, and became convinced that this was not suitable for him.

This happened several more times and each time the reality in which Charlie found himself turned out to be worse for him and the time he spent in this life was longer and longer each time. The last time was almost two years ago, then Charlie found himself in the role of a married housewife with a tyrant husband and was forced to live like Charlotte for almost a week!

...

Now Charlie was really surprised. He didn't recognize any of the buildings. Everything around told him that he was in another country. Or... or in some alternate reality.

But everything turned out to be much more prosaic when Charlie found out that he was now stuck here as Caroline Paulus - a Lithuanian prostitute in a small town in Lithuania, Siauliai, with a population of about 100 thousand inhabitants.