Edgar Allen Poe confronts his dead girlfriend, who wants to drag him into the grave with her...
CAUTION: HUNGRY GHOST, SEX TALK
I'm a shy woman in a truckstop town who learns why I don't fit in. But will I, among my real kin?...
I'm at an all-geek banquet! All shy, no smalltalk. Then the hostess explains why she chose us...
I love a girl who wants to settle in a radioactive jungle, a scar from an ancient war. Stay or go?
Giving up a circle of friends is like the collapse of a sun--do you dry up like a raisin... or explode?
My job's to clarify people's deepest wishes. But when I meet two women who truly want to die...
CAUTION: SUICIDAL IMPULSES
Can our interracial family survive? Not just cultural conflict, but our instincts clash around sex--and incest...
CAUTION: SEX, INCEST ISSUES, DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
I'm a cheetah working as a baker in Coconino County, Arizona, haunted by Krazy Kat...
My friend Dawn dreamed she crawled into a dumpster to live, and at last felt at home, secure...
I'm in the bed of a pickup truck crossing Sonora, insisting to a farmworker "Deserts have spiritual value..."
Dr Who kills his best friend, a huge white tern, on a whim. Furious, I demand a rewrite...
CAUTION: WANTON MURDER
Concerned about my health, I up my fiber intake. But not from the usual sources, though...
CAUTION: BAD DIETARY ROLE MODEL
I had a spectacular dream one night, that lasted many days in dream-time--a true other life. It wasn't Earth, and we weren't human.
I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. I woke on deck deep in the night, my friends curled around me, and realized I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a grown woman, marry and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right...
If 1500K is too big to load, try it in parts: 1: HOME, 450K, 2: VOYAGE, 680K, 3: BACK 400K.
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
A watercolor portrait of Leaf and me on our boat in the lost city, from the dream FISHERGIRL...
CAUTION: TRIBAL NUDITY
In my ballet class. The others were learning to leap, but I wanted to FLY. So I went outside alone...
At a benefit for Rock Psychiatrists, the Spirit of the Convention explains why I'm not yet allowed on stage...
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?..
In the Garden of the Gods, I sit through sun and rain. For the gods aren't the gardeners, but the crop...
I dreamed I returned to a childhood park and found mostly ruin. But one magical thing survived...
Time-travel the Navaho way! But our bread-pipe gets hijacked, so we call the Bird. Who shows up, all right...
CAUTION: NON-STANDARD SAVIOR, EVIL DREAM PUNS
I'm a holy man sneaking into a sewerpipe at the beach, to pop anxiety pills in shame. Do they even work?
CAUTION: CHEMICAL CRUTCHES
A poor planet with one city. Urban technocrats and hick ecologists have conflicting development models...
CAUTION: TOO REAL TO BE FUN
My teacher insists, "You'll be scared too, when you see it." But when he shows us humanity’s greatest fear...
CAUTION: UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS
I feel a drag, and take off my safety belt. I find I've been towing an invisible buggy with two men in it...
When I compare Julia Butterfly up her tree with those hermits who sat atop columns in the desert...
A sexy dream-creature hides by splitting her body visually, her red mane and tail matching her background...
Lions trap me in an African cave with only coffee, paper and pens! Is this what it takes to get me to write?
Near a mysterious sculpture garden on the moon, lives the blind, bike-riding sage I seek: Moon-Cat...
A poem linking the dawn of digital art to early, tinny phonographs, cranky film cameras...
CAUTION: IDEAS
I'm a stratospheric bat who catches a flying swastika. Is it creeping fascism, a Hindu blessing, or...?
Towers, before he was killed, argued Terman was wrong: geniuses are often isolated and maladjusted...
CAUTION: UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS
Plato never did say what shed the light that cast those shadows on his cave wall. I find out.
CAUTION: CUT-RATE APOCALYPSE
Refugees flood the spirit worlds! War looms. Wolf, Silky, Dr Who, even the Bug-Goddess of Love are alarmed. I'm just a blonde ditz, but I help inspect realities till we trace the source: a Tlingit potlatch? Why?
A dream about our family's black cat Persephone, who had to make a decision...
I'm a telepathic rabbit defending our world from space-laser attack. We do, but do we modernize too much?
CAUTION: IDEAS
20,000 years from now, a deer-harpist named Razi finds the Holy Wino's not quite the ruin he seems...
CAUTION: BAD PENGUINS, DEER NUDITY, RUDE DRUNK
A Japanese high school athlete has no friends, till she starts meeting animal spirits on her long solo runs...
At the beach, I meet some gregarious desert-world aliens who think their only loner is insane...
I love what dancers look like, seen over time, in strobe photos. Like weird undersea growths...
WARNING: NAKED CATS
Wayan dreams a jet crashes in dead silence. That morning his computer silently crashes. Meanwhile Vera dreams of being ON a jet that...
The pier jutting into the sea of dreams has an 8th chakra at the end, where a lonely woman fishes for sole...
Well, Tarzan and Jane are living in suburbia now, but though Tarzan's given up so much, Jane complains...
Silicon Valley goes enthusiastically fascist. I hide in a berry patch. They build a shining world, and then...
Unshade trees are ugly. But my friends list their uses: casting shadows lighter than sunlight, keeping land clear of other trees, and the fruit. Fruit? WHAT fruit? Am I blind?
Maybe the web like a shining dove will lead me out of my lonely cave into the light. The glaring light. Wait!
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
For flirting in the astral cafeteria, we all get sentenced to group therapy--till I catch the lie in my life...
I'm a one-legged hopping hermit in the ruins of LA, and my only hope for love is to conjure a girl from a...
A hermit spends his life wrestling with shadows. His only disciple becomes famous. Who was happier?