The world's first all-bulemic band, Veronica and the Vomits, provokes a riot at our local punk club. So I go to Anorexic Bootcamp and join an army of models learning self-defense under fire, as calories and fat jokes whiz by...
CAUTION: SKINNY GIRLS WHO MAKE YOU WANT TO BARF--no wait, that's a bad idea!
I dreamed of South American musical intrigue in a grand hotel. Enter a polka-dot shapeshifter...
A woman explains why the subjective rate of change has slowed--we EXPECT life to be different...
My car's idling too fast. After hours of diagnosis, I notice a foot's on the gas! Only it's not MY foot...
I live in a haunted house where ghosts push you to suicide. But they're as tired of it as I am...
I find myself at a creepy party supporting a dead man who's running for office. And am I Dan Quayle?
CAUTION: HORROR BEYOND HORROR. YOU ARE DAN QUAYLE.
On Love Day you can't mock anyone's come-on, of course; but in the bar "Cheers", Carla's mad at Diane...
CAUTION: PRO-BIGAMY?
I'm a girl in a Catholic school. But a chance photo and the length of my bed combine to change my life...
CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, CHRISTIAN-NEGATIVE
Mom's gone, and our writer/bohemian dad's caring for us alone, now. He's barely coping. And he's me...
I dream a hypnotist elicits a personality who says he obliges my paranoia by giving me weird luck...
My life is a mess, so I take a class on the four flavors of chaos, and find my Strange Attractors are shifting...
Captain Kirk (Starfleet, retired) saves us all from terrorists at a powerplant, but he forgot something...
Time-hopping through centuries, I learn how slow deep social change is. How we cling to our worldviews!
I'm shown a crystal egg with a model of my mind in it. The mapping is unmistakable. How embarrassing!:
A man slowly walled in by neighbors till he died, is now a mad, murderous ghost. And he's me! Can I exorcise MYSELF?
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
The Inner Theater. I'm duelling someone who keeps changing the rules. But so can I... can we make a deal?
I'm a faun, the oracle for a Greek village. But my predecessor set up rituals I want to change...
CAUTION: SEX, PAGANISM, SELF-SATYRE
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
A dream-lecturer says Shadows aren't just what we hate or fear, but what we admire yet see as "not us"...
CAUTION: IDEAS
Shevek invents time-travel and discreetly alters the past. But the future alters Shevek's present, to make his changes meaningless. Who's sabotaging him? Or should we ask... WHAT?
A girl lies dreaming in the street; no one can wake her. At last I yell "Face it, she's dead!" But is she? I never try a kiss...
A dance classmate asks a bizarre question that haunts me. That night I dream I'm suicidal--nearly kill myself. Then I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern, from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but each time, the challenges get more spiritual. I wake up stunned. Then I learn what a shaman I know just dreamed... and now I'm unsure whose dream this is..
CAUTION: IDEAS
Two realities pester me like big spoiled babies to care for their mythic figures, till I go on shamanic strike...
A single dad loves his daughter, but is so pathologically cheap he's teaching her an unintended lesson...
CAUTION: CHILD NEGLECT
Half our religion-founders were just one guy coming back till he got it right. Well, practice makes perfect...
Chased by purple squid from Jupiter, I seek refuge with a guru the Goddess recommends for me...
The traditional figure is blindfolded, holding two crossed swords. I used crossed TV antennae...
I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah. I dream she leads a revolution on a starship...
Our band's touring Titan. Road trip blues: diners, feuds, romances. Have I been chasing the wrong girl?
I'm half Anglo, half Kwakiutl. My uncle the shaman died, but he still wants to teach me his medicine...
I'm climbing a tower, as my dad, Apollo, drunk, throws bottles at me from the top, breaking bones...
CAUTION: DENIAL ABOUT ALCOHOLISM
Ballerina Joan Brady quit, but ten years later, returned. Her body rejuvenated! So what can MINE do?
A road trip through New Mexico mutates into a tour of my relationship disasters...
The real pursuit of happiness: Happiness pursues ME, and I run in shame and hide! But she's persistent...
Nancy Friday describes a certain kind of guy disturbingly like me, and I realize chronic illness has made me...
Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted?
I'm in an apartment co-op in Silicon Valley where people share their skills--till rush hour begins...