America isn't the Melting Pot. It's the Humping Pot...
CAUTION: THE BEAST WITH 300,000,000 BACKS
An eagle slaughtered my twenty geese. I wept until he spoke to me: "Take heart! These are thy suitors; I am thy husband..."
Before his daughter's even born, Thorstein dreams two eagles in love with a swan kill one another in rivalry over her...
CAUTION: PATRIARCHAL BARBARIANS
Mute, paired images, contrasting life with the death we're spreading. And then finally the dream speaks:
CAUTION: READ THE TITLE AND GO SABOTAGE SOMETHING!
I will a clay cat to come to life, then start healing real cats and dogs and...
Concerned about my health, I up my fiber intake. But not from the usual sources, though...
CAUTION: BAD DIETARY ROLE MODEL
Ebon Ebon Thalud, a woman blended with darkness, tries to gouge out my right eye. I wake screaming. My right eyelid is swollen...
I'm a small planet in an eccentric orbit: a one-day summer, a two-day winter. Rest and hibernate, or...
CAUTION: SLACKER ETHIC
My stomach ache is an ectopic pregnancy. The embryo's doomed. Surgery. And I'm a man...
My brother-in-law, Eddy, was out hunting with a young boy whose shotgun had its safety off. All of a sudden Eddy dropped...
A robed figure crowds a wild horse to a cliff-edge. One's my body, one's my soul. But which?...
My new editor starts rejecting my poems. My new new editor rewrites them for me. I feel lucky not to be arrested...
A young, naive, ethereal dream gets an Animus to guide her through the crazy material plane...
CAUTION: GRATUITOUS WILLIAM SHATNER
I learn to fly, but keep it quiet. Yet aliens still find out, and tell me a truth I didn't want to know...
I dreamed living in a body of flesh is like being trapped on a sinking cruise ship...
CAUTION: NUDITY (but she's just crying, not giving that guy a blowjob, okay?)
What are the psychological effects of growing up psychic, as others' thoughts and feelings invade you? When other's BODIES invade yours, it's molestation...
Night thoughts. Are they eggs? Dreams? Worlds? Phases of the moon?
CAUTION: NEGATIVE BREASTS
I wonder how far I'll go to hide my Egg of Power.... and, I'm afraid, I find out.
I was a intellectual ballerina trying to stop zombie monsters from hatching out of the Earth...
I have to care for two gigantic eggs. But I'm at a party where people crack eggs for Slime Races...
I wondered where a friend was, and felt as if I were walking at night near the Sphinx. Months later...
Egyptian archeologists dig up a living god. He sees us as dolls to play with, but we've grown up...
CAUTION: GOD AS A RAPIST
First I learn strange sex positions from an abused elf and have calligraphic orgasms, then I, uh, turn on my stereo...
CAUTION: SEX, ESP, ANORGASMIA, PAST LIVES, ABUSE ISSUES
In the middle of Nowhere Desert, I meet a telepathic unicorn who's stuck with a false safety-tag...
In a field in the Central Valley, I face the Terror of California...
CAUTION: FIENDISH LEFTIST PROPAGANDA
After the Lord of the Rings falls, Elbereth herself is sent to heal the land. But she has a troubling neighbor...
In a world of bad haircuts, I meet a dragon running for office. But is this real, or a dream? Yes! It's...
Every year, as Americans get fatter, the fashion gets thinner (and I look more normal)...
An amicably divorcing man suddenly turns into an elephant to chase a little red demon! What's going on here?
I'm a migratory girl who's lost my tribe. I find eleven coins, cross the world, and pay the Oracle...
After trespassing in a staff-only part of Faerie, I'm cast out. Only I'm cast like a seed, meant to grow a new elf circle...
We escape the trolls, but then our author, Tolkien, breaks in to explain a word, and the rest of the night...
A painting's a window into another world--a window opening two ways. People in paintings may be watching us...
A logging war in the northern forests is confused by subjective realities. Am I sure what I see is real?
In the Rockies, in winter, I was freezing until I found hot springs. In the steam rising, I saw a vision of an elk...
Pa warns me to protect my paws. Gilt wounds my sole. A lioness eats a drumstick. Then a bus crashes on our corner--for real!
I'd been reading Francesca Lia Block's I WAS A TEENAGE FAIRY...
CAUTION: NUDITY
An elephant sinks in the North Sea, and the Oracle Mink says a wizard did it. Can old Lady Gandalf help?
I'm the Incredible Hulk, forced to do emergency brain surgery. And the patient's burning from within...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND UNLICENSED MEDICINE
I signed a prenatal agreement for weird, uneven luck to turn my life toward art and spirit. I want to broaden it, but I've lost the contract! So my spirit wife Silky sets out to find it...
My spirit-wife and I spend our last evening together painting. Not with colors--with emotions...
The Emperor of the Galaxy can't publish his anti-slavery book as himself, so he quits to become a slave...
A pig led me off my path to meet a lady. I told her my true name, and felt something shift...
I lose myself, but I get some startling advice from a convent-school kid with empty eyes...
Goaded by a green spirit of envy, an Ice Age sorceror kidnaps Adam's Eve, with alarming results for human evolution...
At my mechanic's garage, a child prodigy rebuilds a car engine. Gawking, I nearly plow into the crowd...
This image is senseless, but I have an excuse: I was watching TV in my dreams. TV on another world...
The hero Gilgamesh troubles his city til he has a dream predicting the gods will send him a best friend and lover, Enkidu...
CAUTION: SEX
A crowd watches from shore as a great glowing meteor descends into the sea. I fear a tsunami, but...
On our expedition to the black hole, one researcher gets quantum-entangled with the singularity! He could become anything...
After murdering his mother, Nero dreams he's losing control: ships drift, statues chase him, and his own tomb says...
A candidate glad to shake your hand... though not all you voters will want him to...
CAUTION: ANOTHER PRICK RUNNING FOR OFFICE
I must see a community as a whole, and intuit my way out of a sealed room, and spot details, and join a trio in bed...
CAUTION: NUDITY IN LAST DREAM
I'm trapped in a TV documentary on nuclear war! Better dive through a TV screen and find a safe sitcom...
I meet a man who's lived centuries on an all-cannibal diet. He has ethics, though: he sticks to roadkill! Except...
CAUTION: EEEUUGH!
I go to an investment counselor who asks ME for advice! I lay out a plan, then wonder it'd work in nonfinancial affairs too...
I'm at a symposium on how our beliefs alter not just the future, but the PAST...
CAUTION: CONTAINS IDEAS
On a volcano's rim, watching the lava fountains, I interview a huge blue alien bird who never planned to be a monk...
Bad puns link an ecological dream of a forest being murdered by inches, and a dental exam...
One pays for soaring high with solitude of the soul...
During the great race up Everest, I become an e-snake, cross three eco-bubbles, beg a wary deer-taur to splice my spine for me, help Ariane (a childhood crush on the run from sentient tanks), and solve at last the Dream Equations... I learn climbing Everest doesn't take strength, but... trust?
Lucifer throws firebolts from a Montreal tower as monsters stalk people on the streets; then a great flood washes us away...
Money, power, race and gender don't stifle my friends who work as much as hierarchical structure...
Evolution is like baseball--a game of inches, efficiency, constraints. Surely we can do better....
CAUTION: CONTAINS THOUGHT
A woman explains why the subjective rate of change has slowed--we EXPECT life to be different...
I meet a girl who's 16 and 61, who tells me dreams are lives, not messages. But then I must fly over a sinister parade...
In a world where ice contracts and sinks, birds freeze in winter and thaw in spring. But one swan knows better, and freezes differently...
Hide and seek on an alien world ends in a sexy encounter--and a startling insight on BELIEF...
CAUTION: SEX
Tarot cards fuse and meanings layer, to warn me I've similarly (con)fused real and trance-induced memories during therapy...
CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES
I stood on a bridge in winter. A skater shot out from the arch beneath, trailing a rainbow of balloons...
A staring Eye tries to break me, though his birds rebel in sympathy. But the cats and robots flay me. Yet I refuse to die...
I'm on a train in Britain, sitting across from a respectable-looking woman with a large bolt sticking in her eye...
A coach-driving vampire seemed kind of cute until he raped me. If that's even his real face...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE