My dreams are made of lovely carvable jade. Too bad my tools and skills suit our plastic age...
I touch the secret soul of a cancer survivor, upsetting her. To apologize, I become a goofy hopping god...
CAUTION: FONDLING SACRED FIGURINES
A Buddhist scroll shows me Hell Cafe, where diners become entrees. But I read the scroll backwards! You can escape Hell just by walking out, against the traffic flow...
CAUTION: CANNIBAL SOULS
I get stuck with a one-year mandatory gig as President of the World just as Saudi Arabia collapses, and fools rush in...
A child prodigy stands out in a chorus line of waterdancers. Her body and energy are a patchwork of young and old...
My family home's invaded by ancient Egyptian architects. So I put on my unicorn mask and eavesdrop on their plans...
Trapped in a blend of Joan of Arcadia and The Tempest Tales, I'm tired of being the pratfall sidekick...
My neurotic sister and I both lust for a girl named Sky; then I flee a gang of popes and lamas and mullahs...
I'm a girl in rural Victorian England working as the county's magical protector. I have my hands full: a gang of ne'er-do-wells led by Ann So-And-So has found refuge in an invisibility tree! Showdown at the oak...
Around royalty, protocol gets complex. I love the Dog King; despite her title she's female. Does that make her a...
I find myself sitting on toy trains and fake snow as I'm told a fable: how a herd of department-store Santas got lost in a blizzard...
After a day of nonstop art, I'm in rural China. Two women tell me their village declared them dead, killed by demons...
I find myself sketching the slope of progress up to the coming singularity, and suddenly seeing a hidden stability...
I live in a universe running on Bollywood rules. I can stand the constant singing and breakdancing; what gets under my skin is that Bollywood Code...
Fresh off the Beagle, Darwin and friends meet three wolf-girls on a train and exhibit a Pavlovian (or Biblical) reflex...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM, PUNS
Those Hollywood lovers in the tub seem perfect together, until... oh, read the title!
CAUTION: RACE- AND GENDER-BENDING
That levitating bear's not tightrope-walking--she rides a goat strung like soap-on-a-rope. A goat that's me! I'm eating...
CAUTION: UGH!
Shipwrecked and claimed as salvage on Crete, Ed the writer became a dishwashing slave! In contrast, Marie the musician...
When the school district goes bankrupt, students flee creditors into a hell-cave. But Joe Cool can skateboard on lava in the pit...
I'm in prehistoric Baja mining nuggets that howl, when pterodactyl-worshiping pirates glide in to snatch our ore...
A tiger-couple on an ice floe must choose: swim for land, or ride the current full circle round the sea, risking starvation?
A musical prodigy has a gorgeous, unplayable keyboard. But serious creativity takes a dull, regular, ergonomic instrument...
A horde of demented dwarves invades Market Street, jumping up & down, shaking the skyscrapers...
Robot wolves with videocam eyes prowl our block, freezing me in their headlights. Why do I think one's my ex?
In Palo Alto I meet strange musicians in the rain, and realize kitsune aren't born but made...
A Marin girl finds a dirty secret in the school library, and identifies with the discarded books--and people...
I'm worried an alien charity is brainwashing an ex-prostitute. When I wake, she's still there--at 2/5 scale!...
The Conference on Love has two sexy speakers. One says "my teacher's stalking me" but she clings to him. Love? Hate? Both?
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM--but what are these two exhibiting?
I snorkel over the time-reefs to an era of talking animals--but why do I crash on the head of rocker Suzi Quatro?
I'm a Chinese kid fleeing the Japanese Occupation in 1938. As we near San Francisco, I wake to find it's all my dad's dream. Wait... he's alive again? But he wasn't a refugee. Is this a pastlife memory, and if so, whose--his or mine?
Three big tap-dancing kidnappers is too many to fight. So I try admiring their kidnapping technique...
Renewing one's life has its costs. What if you can't pay the price? A dreamlet of warning and shame...
I'm a spy tracking down coinlike bombs. Fighting a double agent, I fall in love! So I suggest her gang rob golden-parachute bankers...
CAUTION: POOLSIDE SEX
A lecturer tries to help the homeless founder of Hamm's Beer, robbed by bankers. But the talk may harm more than help...
In the hills above a polluted shore, I find hidden valleys with huge rare trees, and realize it's my choice...
One wizardry-classmate summons strange beings; another's learned how not to. Some things should be avoided at rush hour...
On a volcano's rim, watching the lava fountains, I interview a huge blue alien bird who never planned to be a monk...
A new Eve asks the Time Commission to send her back to Ethiopia 45,000 years ago. But they're shy Moomintrolls, not humans...
George Bush leads a hill-tribe raid against the hill-tribe led by Osama bin Laden... and I'm stuck between...
CAUTION: ANTI-HEROES, POLITICAL PREDICTION
The jeweled fish over San Francisco grew and grew until it landed and they spoke the secret code to me...
A children's performance of "Where the Wild Things Are" turns into a riot-orgy. Why do I think it's all about politics?
CAUTION: WILD THING ORGY
Things start materializing in my house: first three tiny naked scientists and then an impossible fruit...
CAUTION: NUDE SCIENTISTS
On the waterfront, I meet a seductive girl. Well, guy. Well, serial killer. Um, I think I'll leave now...
CAUTION: HOMOPHOBIA OR SURVIVAL INSTINCT?
Improv-dancing with my sister, I get turned on. But then a repressed Asian girl joins our dance, and...
CAUTION: INCEST MENTIONED. OOPS, TOO LATE.
In a desert crawling with aliens who can absorb your mind, I propose a truce, and gain...
In a city crawling across a marshy world, I find a detonating bomb frozen in a time-ball. Why do they bear this risk?
I'm a ghost watching future archeologists dig up a site of my people--and get it so wrong...
As I write a sad sex dream, a madman curls up fetally in the road outside my window. I'm slow to call 9-1-1, and...
I'm trapped in a cutesy cartoon universe! Worse, to judge a beauty contest, I have to see past our style to our souls...
A sorceror's apprentice describes a medical procedure her teacher plans. I sure wouldn't want that done to ME...
CAUTION: TALK OF BLOOD AND SEX
My shamanic teacher lures me into a labyrinth ruled by wizards whose magic-monopoly's about to fall...
I have to kiss a mess of cats. Fishy, but I'm not chicken. My real beef is with the humans watching...
I dream I'm an insomniac trapped in a flat full of snoring writers and reporters. Wait a minute...
Through twin gates of dream--not ivory and horn any more, but fear and trust...
Three castles on the sea, lovely or lame: a Mock Kremlin, a Ship of Toiletpaper, and a Ship of Brick and Beer...
A mad old surfer of the San Andreas Fault, impossibly riding earth-change...
My sister & I swim round a weirdly shrunken Pacific, until, near Fiji, we blunder too close to the drain...
I interview my own metabolism. Trouble in Cellville! I've got strikers and usurpers. But at least no invaders...
After my mom's death, my dad starts dating again, while I hide out and wince. Can't I do anything positive?
My friend's mom is a witch-smeller, who judges apprentice shamans. But when a boy dreams he's a crocodile, watch out!
At a party in Animal Heaven, I fall for a rabbit-girl doomed to be human dinner. How can I rescue her? I'm Fate's part-time intern!
CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, INCOMPETENT ANGEL OF DEATH
Alchemy demands I kill ten swallows. I refuse! Instead, twelve birds and I fuse and fly over a magic wood...
Dr Who kills his best friend, a huge white tern, on a whim. Furious, I demand a rewrite...
CAUTION: WANTON MURDER
I play the lovers in a teen romance: shy abused boy, insecure girl. But I get tired of the script, and...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
The goddess of the Cult of Clutter catches a little thief, and tastes her to see if she’s worthy...
A dream-fable of lemons who are really orange-people infected by a spore turns out to be about me...
I meet a monster--half earthworm, half giraffe. Then I realize she's kind of cute...