It was on a beach. Inside, a black thing squirming. Despite all the tales of vengeful djinn, I pull the cork...
I'm a faculty wife bored out of my mind until two students have sex in my yard. I ignore HIM and jump HER...
CAUTION: SEX
My figure-painting class here in San Francisco has a diverse student body, but not THIS diverse...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Three teasing sex-dreamlets chipping away at my shyness with women I like...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
I win a prize on a gameshow, but collecting is another story, since the show is run from Hell...
My skateboard-riding mermaid girlfriend and I bind ourselves together by the magical power of names...
Writer Alice Miller tried painting her childhood monsters. I tried it her way and got a surprise message...
A wild flying dream lands me among feral children fighting to live in a glass conservatory of lost flowers...
Coyote invades an abstract painting and reveals why the art biz likes conceptual, impersonal art...
In older studies at least, women dream of both sexes but men dream largely of men. Just like TV, huh?
CAUTION: YOU'LL NEVER WATCH TV AGAIN
I tried a Redon theme: huge, floating eyes. His are scary, but mystical; mine came out as guilty terror...
I might have been less cowed by the storm-face, if I'd seen it was made of little foxes just like me...
I don't know if the fox-shepherdess ate all her sheep, or if she herded invisible and quite different things...
My best friend and I are shapeshifters; I seduce him, just so my daughter Krytha can be born...
CAUTION: MAMMALIAN NUDITY, PHEROMONAL SEDUCTION, RECKLESS PREGNANCY
I'm a mortal time-tech, living in the Commune of the Gods, when I meet Little Red Riding Hood...
A sex dream warning "to find your soulmate, learn to spot the opposite: cute political and spiritual idiots..."
CAUTION: SEX AND POLITICS
Strange oaths are proposed for the first geological expedition to the moon Miranda...
Hide and seek on an alien world ends in a sexy encounter--and a startling insight on BELIEF...
CAUTION: SEX
Part an experiment in wild textures, part a "Where's Waldo" game to see if you'd notice my self-portrait...
You're looking down on a landscape at something red, scalloped and twisty. A barrier or a path to follow?
The modern Aztec Empire is as bad as Anglos toward other Indians, for it's not poverty that hurts...
She didn't want to be there. She closed her eyes and went elsewhere. So I painted where she went...
CAUTION: NUDITY
I dreamed my friend Beryl's soul was a giant rabbit, arguing in paradise with our mutual guardian angel...
On a downtown street, a classmate is singing for change. I can't resist seeing if I can distract her...
CAUTION: THEY'RE BOTH EXHIBITIONISTS
When I compare Julia Butterfly up her tree with those hermits who sat atop columns in the desert...
What my home town will become, if you fools keep burning gas and spewing CO2 in the air...
Cities are fun when you're a bird--all those updrafts and perches and nests with great views...
Day Me curls up and Night Me unfolds: a girl with dark moth-wings, not angel-white but camouflaged...
I made a cold moon of burnished metal, rusted and scraped. But then this warm mare reared...
As new political outrages flow forth, I feel like a horse wary of a sweet-talking human, and I think...
A girl with a magic swimsuit flashes me, as her Iranian fundamentalist aunt glares from beyond the veil...
CAUTION: NUDITY? OR ILLUSION?
Why wait for the Rapture when you can use a chinup machine and raise yourself off that cross?...
CAUTION: NUDE PSEUDO-CRUCIFIXION, SACRILEGIOUS SELF-HELP
Both of us were abused as kids. Sex is hard. So we go to a therapist who has us act out sex on the floor...
CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES
Being a hippie artist in San Francisco today feels like being an animal in an African game park...
Coyote's pagan parody of the Christian Lord's prayer. Well, actually, it's kind of sweet..
CAUTION: SACRILEGE, ESPECIALLY THE BIT ABOUT TEMPTATION
I realize how strongly environmental illness sculpts my view of the world...
CAUTION: CHICKEN BONDAGE
I wake to find I have two penises, one connected, one free-floating! How do its sensations reach my brain?
CAUTION: WANDERING WEENIES!
I heard a noise out my window. I looked out, and saw something strange...
It's hard being even mildly multiple. Here three of my least compatible personalities line up and...
On my bad days, as I'm shackled to the wall of my illness or shyness...
The rich block reform. So let's offer the rich and power what they really want: ranking and attention...
CAUTION: CHIMPONOMICS
My anima the singing horse was encouraging a shy werewolf boy to give it a try...
CAUTION: UNCLAD HORSE CHANTEUSE
Ours is a mixed-race family, and my sister takes after the horse side. No hands, but can she sing!...
A deep portrait of a lesbian couple, back when no one else was even acknowledged gays existed...
A young, naive, ethereal dream gets an Animus to guide her through the crazy material plane...
CAUTION: GRATUITOUS WILLIAM SHATNER
I wake up praying for love--and then realize my wish is contradictory, and revise it to...
At a family picnic, my sisters and I fish for scholarships and grants. They put down my art, my website...
We're exploring the English farm we inherited, when The Wild Hunt storms over the hill...
A famous inventor is descended from foxes. Their faces teach me something about beauty and character...
A single dad loves his daughter, but is so pathologically cheap he's teaching her an unintended lesson...
CAUTION: CHILD NEGLECT
Are dreamworlds grim, on average? Do our dreams just express fears, or try to SOLVE our problems?
I knew my new girlfriend was the large economy size but I didn't realize she was a gas giant until...
CAUTION: FLATULENT PLANETARY NUDITY
I dreamed that as a kid I found two girls making love in the bushes, awakening my own sexual orientation. Later, I saw the bigger picture, which wasn't about sex at all...
CAUTION: SEX
Exploring a sunken sub, my buddies salvage a live bomb. Toss it back, but the next find may just toss us...
A hard-hitting rap on Satan's dumbest disguise. Yet he's gotten away with it! The shocking truth...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE! SACRILEGE! MUCILAGE! (FOR THE MOUSTACHE)
A writer I meet either starts flirting with me obscenely, or advising me about eyecare, or... both?
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
A woman explains why the subjective rate of change has slowed--we EXPECT life to be different...
I'm in Theremin's lab, around 1930, trying to play one of his experimental instruments. Why won't it work?
Lifespans are growing, but do we incorporate that into our life-planning? Oh, hell, do I plan at ALL?
I pray to the Love Goddess for help, but then realize there's a problem with my phrasing...
CAUTION: UNROMANTIC
My recent attitude changes are so big, I can fly now. Yet I hide them, lie to my family... why?
No dream, no plot. I saw myself as a horse grazing in a forest of giant mosses, lifting spore-packets...
My uncle is Jupiter. Not the god, the planet. All my relatives are planets. So am I. And I'm invaded...
James Hillman and my own experience suggest we enter life with an agenda. But what if our goals are sick?
Business solved the problem of cheap foreign labor: slavery's legal again. So our firm buys cheap losers...
In a future where we gengineer ourselves instead of others, we no longer have to choose lesser evils...
Mom's gone, and our writer/bohemian dad's caring for us alone, now. He's barely coping. And he's me...
I'm Hitler's girlfriend. Not Eva Braun, just me--gentle, weak, thrown in among killers. What can I do?
It's hard to fly without a plane, but I try, over a lonely lagoon. Until I panic some nesting swans...
A plague begins on terraformed Mars and spreads to Earth. Population biology made it inevitable...
CAUTION: OFFSTAGE POPULATION CRASH
I'm a sniper in a desert battle of men against hobbits. Guilty for not fighting openly, but that'd be suicidal...
CAUTION: MATH AND WAR
A witch in the future invents a new way to terraform small dense moons--and it'd work!...
Why is Captain Janeway doing the tango with another woman, in a creek, wearing a mermaid tail?
In a world of bad haircuts, I meet a dragon running for office. But is this real, or a dream? Yes! It's...
Sexy dreams of Chinese archeology, authorized by the fairies, make me face that my family abused me...
At a party I meet a friend I thought was dead. She's become a small talking rabbit made of cake, and I...
CAUTION: UGH
I'm on a women's sports team, and I should be in paradise. But I want more; not love exactly, but...
My paleontologist mom can scuttle like a lizard, so why can't she manage a dinosaur gait?
I'm in the park, feeling sad, till a girl on the lawn near me semaphores a message via rings and turquoise...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM
I lose my temper. I don't just fly off the handle--I fly off a cliff and out to sea! Why'd I risk drowning?..
I'm a migratory girl who's lost my tribe. I find eleven coins, cross the world, and pay the Oracle...
A woman goes on a quest with an alien friend, and returns with only a furry musical vase. Her FRIEND?
Coming down with a virus, I dream of a guy who INSISTS we must fight, it's just so FUN...
I'm a battered girl who sings in a mall. The Mall Dictator (of all people) helps me start to heal, and learn to fly...
CAUTION: BATTERING AND ITS CONSEQUENT DAMAGE
A sexy meadow-spirit of my California drygrass hills...
CAUTION: NUDITY
At a party, a sad girl attracts me. But to reach her, I must have an affair with a sexy, frustrated writer...
In the Los Angeles ruins, a wizard-gang jumps us. Trapped, I try a desperate move never seen in LA: I use my feet...
I meet a nice werewolf in a hall of past-life junk, so sharp and rusty we dare not play...
I bike deep into Time Hall, barging through security gates of amnesia, to climb the midden of the past...
I dream my watch is way off and I’ll be late. When I wake, I check my daughter’s watch. They agree. Can’t BOTH be wrong... can they?