The studio was a white cube, a void of curated silence in the heart of Soho. I, Julian Vane, had spent my career exploring the boundaries of perception. I believed that the body was merely a suggestion, a temporary arrangement of matter that could be edited, deleted, or replaced.

The 'Switch' was my final masterpiece. I had developed a way to slide my consciousness into other forms, a fluid movement from one identity to another. For a while, it was a game of cosmic proportions. I was a banker on Monday, a street performer on Tuesday, a ghost in the machine on Wednesday. I was everyone, and therefore, I was no one.

But the universe has a way of correcting its errors. During a transfer that went wrong, I was locked. Not into a human, but into a form that was fundamentally incompatible with my sense of self—a clumsy, heavy, and utterly absurd biological entity.

I did not panic. Panic is for those who believe in a fixed identity. Instead, I viewed my new condition as a piece of performance art. I called it 'The Geometry of Absence.' I began to move through the city, a grotesque anomaly in a world of streamlined perfection. I would stand in the middle of Times Square, a silent, awkward monument to the failure of the will.

People stared. Some laughed. Some looked away in disgust. I found the reactions exquisite. I was no longer the artist; I was the art. I was the physical manifestation of the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be.

In the process of my 'performance,' I stumbled upon a hidden network of others like me—the 'Locked.' We were the casualties of the consciousness trade, the broken fragments of people who had tried to buy a better life and ended up as biological glitches. We met in the basements of abandoned theaters, sharing stories of the lives we had lost and the absurdities we now inhabited.

I realized that the 'Switch' hadn't been a tool for liberation, but a mechanism for a new kind of class warfare. The rich weren't just buying property; they were buying the very essence of being, leaving the poor to rot in the discarded shells of their former selves.

I stand now in my studio, looking at the white walls. I am a monster, a glitch, a mistake. And for the first time in my life, I feel completely honest. The absurdity of my form is the only truth I have left.

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