Plato never did say what shed the light that cast those shadows on his cave wall. I find out.
CAUTION: CUT-RATE APOCALYPSE
My sister and her friend the snake-woman tell me the facts of life: the golden hooks, the piglets...
CAUTION: UNRELIABLE GYNECOLOGY
I walk on Martinique with Captain Picard of the starship Enterprise. He's here to see a dreamy boy...
My detective lover warned me, "Stay away!" Now
I'm trapped. Dare I follow the lion over the edge?
I'm the first man on Planet Cat, falling in love with my guide. And then I'm the Cat, falling for an alien ape...
CAUTION: NUDE CAT
An itchy patient of mine insists he's turning into a four-
headed, man-eating plesiosaur. He left one thing out...
A quarrel between psychic adepts heats up to a war,
thawing Pluto. What will the ice-tribes wish for?
My lover's turned into a tiny living pull-toy, trapped
ankle-deep in a wheeled platform. How can I free her?
I'm pregnant with the Antichrist. This is going to ruin my vacation!
Wait... why do I think this dream's all about money?
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
One by one, we're pulled under the water, the earth... eaten. That's the fate of all flesh. And we're flesh.
CAUTION: HORROR
My friend Chris gets tied up at the office--that's his job, looking martyred! But when the boss is away...
CAUTION: NUDITY
My parents invite me out to dinner, but there's a rattlesnake under the table,
and my mom chases it up my leg. I wake to find two holes in my knee...
I dreamed I was riding a huge toy train, and a gigantic rattlesnake was at the controls...
My girlfriend Raven dreams I keep poking her awake,
while I dream that a giant raven gives me weird advice...
Calmly, I watch a girl trapped in a lab try to escape, and die; and watch a man lose his head to a hungry thing...
CAUTION: GRUESOME
Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love.
Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace?
CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL
I'm an abused girl turning tricks to survive. But this is San Francisco: I join a prostitutes' co-op, and meet...
CAUTION: PROSTITUTES WITH SELF-RESPECT, OH NO!
I dream I'm telling a tall tale about a cat-funeral with hung-over mice pulling the hearse. But it turns a bit too real...
One day, in the ruins of an American city whose name was lost, I met a Ringman under an oak...
CAUTION: GROSS WORK, IF YOU CAN GET IT
My dead friend lost patience with the local dump, so I beat the trash--and out came shining people...
In a Scythian church, a painting on the floor says:
"Little St Bridget was bound so hard that when they released her she flew"...
I wrote my dreams each morning no matter what--even if I it made me late
for work. Bosses saw me as lazy and spacy. Wrong: clear on my priorities!
Two souls coalesce from bars of light into human beings by the power of words. Words like stupid, ugly...
Animal poets at an open mic. My turn! And I find... I'm one. A creature without grammar...
His sewing-machine design failed--until dream-cannibals caught him & jabbed him with weird needles...
CAUTION: OUCH!
My sisters get bored with the game of power, so I watch TV--
until it melts, and a terrifying giant rises to chases me...
A dream-lecturer says Shadows aren't just what we hate or fear, but what we admire yet see as "not us"...
CAUTION: IDEAS
My work as a federal shaman inspector involves judging a rainbow of traditions by a few basic principles:
A summer love affair with a shapeshifting alien turns awkward
when she gets a high fever, loses her humanoid form, and...
CAUTION: UGH!
I'm a circus tiger, then a performing shark. One day, I block my human partner's high dive... Why?
Floundering through the snows of 1917, I fall in love with actress
Linda Evans, who is a sheep teaching ballet. When I wake...
I took my cellphone into the shower. I couldn't find the shampoo, and idly typed SHAMPOO in, and...
CAUTION: NOW YOU KNOW WHO STOLE YOUR ODD SOCKS
After I fled my batterer, I was afraid to love--afraid I'd give up my freedom again for mere kindness...
Sledding at night, I approached the speed of light, and the stars turned colors I'd never seen...
The night before he met his greatest student, Plato, Socrates dreamed he nursed a baby swan who grew...
I'm being hunted in Reincarnation Swamp, as I worry--the human population boom
means experienced souls are scarce. Are most folks you meet really dogs, cats... rats?
CAUTION: MYSTIC ELITISM
I love Splinter, but her mom insists I got BOTH of them pregnant. Then I notice I'm pregnant too...
CAUTION: SEX, NAGGING
I want to drink the elixir, but negative 20 spoons block me! Can I remove them? With warped teacup logic & reciprocals…
I'm a hot archeology student--till I open the wrong tomb,
and a plague turns us into green moldy monsters--at first...
CAUTION: DISEASE, DEATH, GRIEF, SHAME
I froze in dance class when I followed anyone else's script. Was it fear? A dragon inside said no...
I'm playing poker with a dragon. But we barely dare move: we're both crackling with thousands of volts...
A vivid nightmare that turned out a week later to be devastatingly true ...
Nerds built the blues. Rick Moranis, that famous
blues-nerd, makes a groupie suck his icecream cone...
CAUTION: MOCKS MUSIC, RACE, VANILLA ICE (CREAM)...
The tale of the most truly sincerely religious revelation I've ever witnessed...
CAUTION: REAL WITCHES
An ancient pictograph inspires me to try a meditative technique: shrinking and letting myself be eaten...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
I wake amnesic in a cabin in Alaska, in a dress printed with self-putdowns.
I track down the wizard who cursed me. He turns me into a swan! Worse?
No! His first curse was on a human being, and now I'm a bird. My mind is free!...
I met an elfin girl who's tattooed realistic vaginas all over her body, as decoys. For she has...
CAUTION: NUDITY, TATTOOS, TABOOS...
A dragon killed a friend, and threatened worse. I had to fight.
We dueled mid-air, over Lake Tahoe...
Chased by purple squid from Jupiter, I seek refuge with a guru the Goddess recommends for me...
I was barren. I asked Asklepios, God of Healing, to make me pregnant. Soon I was--for 3 years, until...
I'm walking down a tiger's throat, but it's not what you think. Diagnosis!
My friend suddenly couldn't roar. She's here too, exploring her own trachea....
Golfing in the basement with Giselle! But her ball goes through a Stargate
to land on a world where the water hazards are hazards...
A free-lance torturer chooses me for his victim. He has the right. I bluster, but when I fall asleep at last...
CAUTION: NO PAIN, BUT GORE
We were inseparable: the tiger, the fox, and the wolf.
Together our magic lit up the darkness around us, until...
My brother Henry lay in a metal casket. He wore a suit of mine. On his breast were white roses, with
one red at the centre. A few days later, the boilers of the riverboat Henry worked on exploded...
I'm climbing a tower, as my dad, Apollo, drunk, throws bottles at me from the top, breaking bones...
CAUTION: DENIAL ABOUT ALCOHOLISM
My mind and my soul both apply for a job in Stanford Cathedral. Their rivalry grows to a shamanic duel...
Disguised as a literary troll, I spy on the Neo-Nazis, but my disguise
can't last much longer: I ate a magical herb, and I'm growing...
In a future society, I'm deliberately, permanently paralyzed. Yet my home-grown cure slowly works...
I dream we're on a miserable camping trip. So why, when I wake,
do I think it's a diagnostic dream? It's that triple pun...
We lose control of our new time machine, which seems to have its own agenda...
CAUTION: CONTEMPLATION OF SUICIDE, CHRONOLOGICALLY IMPAIRED DREAMER
I cut off my own head! But I grew a new one. Only what to do with the old one? It's starting to rot...
CAUTION: SELF-DISMEMBERMENT
I'm a conscientious saurian who feels obliged to duel with a hot-tempered friend.
Preparing, wanting to fight fair, I don't just file my spurs blunt, I...
At age 90, the first female high-rise steelworker tells me
why she did it--and why she regrets it now...
I'm a part-owner of Eden, harvesting windfalls.
But a renter says his Landlord promised him all the apples...
I was bodiless but trapped. All I could see were these moving wires. Whenever a knot drifted by...
CAUTION: MADNESS, TORMENT, TELEPATHY, SEXUAL REBELLION
A witch in the future invents a new way to terraform small dense moons--and it'd work!...
I slay the beautiful dragon attacking us, despite my regret.
And then, as I sleep, glowing eyes advance on our keep AGAIN...
A woman I had wronged set her pit bull on me! Hand in its jaws, I gave in, and we both began crying...
I'm an elephant working in a diner. In the bathroom, I inadvertently summon the Genie of the Urinal...
CAUTION: PISSED PACHYDERM
A yuppie idealist discovers her boyfriend's a cheerful, amoral
opportunist. They quarrel, and disentangle their lives...
CAUTION: SEX IN REVERSE?!