The Perfect Alibi? Dream Theft

I invented a consciousness-swap device and switched bodies with death-row inmates every night to commit crimes.

When I returned at dawn, the inmates woke up in prison with my memories, convinced they were innocent.

For ten years, I committed countless perfect crimes and got away with them.

Until this morning, when I woke up and found myself still in the death-row cell.

The guard sneered. “Congratulations, you’ve finally come to your senses. This is your real body.”

“That ‘you’ chose to stay in your life ten years ago.”