Giant snakes chased me. I go lucid, turn & slay one. As I woke, the snakes cried. So I re-entered...
CAUTION: SNAKES, BEHEADING, REHEADING
After days sick, I open myself to unseen spirits and let a black wavefront
go through me--and the healing begins. But what did I let in?
CAUTION: MYSTICISM & FETISHISM DON'T MIX
I was hit by a car. Broken leg, ruptured spleen. Surgery. A few nights later, I dreamed
I floated in a healthy dream body above my broken day body. I beamed health down...
An dreams a scary woman pulls his guts out and fills him up with brush! He wakes, gets gutted in a feud, and then...
CAUTION: BLOODY VIKINGS!
My sister gives birth during a killer heatwave. The baby's
dead. I rock the corpse all day, like a chimp might...
CAUTION: GROSS
I die young, to get it over with, like chickenpox. As I slowly revive, I face bias against the dead. So..
I will a clay cat to come to life, then start healing real cats and dogs and...
After the Lord of the Rings falls, Elbereth herself is sent to heal the land. But she has a troubling neighbor...
The Fairy Queen curses me, taking away my language. Recovery often takes years,
but I practice hard, and speak full sentences--the next day. The Queen is slipping...
A fairy woman and a mortal man? Can't work! They're flighty, we're crude. Doomed, right?
Well, some people are so sure of it they decide to help things along a bit. Or a lot...
Qu'lad, dying in the flu pandemic, dreamt a wolf said "Cold-water baths will cure you." He crawled in the river & lived. He told others; they
lived. The shaman Togumalis dreamt his spirit helper, a squirrel, also urged cold baths. A century later, hospital records show why it worked...
CAUTION: ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE SHOWN AS SUPERIOR
When I touch people, they heal. But they don't want to be merely restored, but reshaped...
CAUTION: TRANNIES AND FURRIES LEAVE THE CLOSET
A mind-control drug urges her to strangle her loved ones, but
to beat the curse she busies her fluttering hands with bluegrass banjo...
I wake in a hobbit-hole. My love looks worried. What's wrong with me? A badger
takes me to see wizard Sean Connery, who gives me feathers to eat, and I become...
My friend Cory's sore back is healed by a dream. So I ask for the same, and get this dream of incest...
CAUTION: KARMA, SEX/NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES
I had a headache and couldn't sleep. I started drawing, and asked for a cure. And a cartoon angel said...
CAUTION: TANTRUMS, MASTURBATION, JUNKFOOD, ANGELIC SCOLDING
A courtroom hostage-drama where I'm forced to commit... tracheotomy! And then the Gulf War begins...
CAUTION: CARTOON VIOLENCE
A blind girl had trained for years to get revenge on Lük (or Lock), a winter god in the form of an ice wolf.
Defeating the god will restore her sight, but she didn't know the world will fall into endless winter...
She turned me to a pig. I rooted hungrily, not for food but for moly, the sacred herb that could undo her spell...
CAUTION: TRAPPED IN PORCINITY
I slept on an island in a scalding hot spring, praying for a dream. I got one--and woke up on the shore...
Ann faced surgery for inflamed ovaries. She asked her dreams for a second opinion. She was told
"there's plenty of time for all this:" swimming, meditation, having a baby, climbing a ladder to her law degree.
She woke cured! Her doctor said "you must've been misdiagnosed; you just thought you were in pain."
CAUTION: SEXIST GASLIGHTING
Janet's obsessed with a creepy guy till her pixy friend Kay decides to "knock some sense into her cunt"--literally...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, NASTY LOVE SPELL, PIXIE NUDITY
After weeks of headaches I dream of a fatal, mosquito-borne plague.
Humanity looks doomed till my friends devise a folk remedy...
I was a robot who had a soul--till the Reagans stole it! I track them down, and
demand it back. Simply confronting them works--the hole inside me is filled...
CAUTION: CAUSTIC POLITICS
My dead friend lost patience with the local dump, so I beat the trash--and out came shining people...
Silla Kristos angered Saint Walatta Petros, so she cursed him. He got sick and died. She knew she'd overdone it,
and asked the Virgin Mary to revive him. Mary grumbled, but did. While dead, Silla Kristos got wise angelic advice...
CAUTION: BRATTY SAINT, BRATTY MONK
The glow seemed to come from within her, but I knew it flowed from my own breast. Her eyes fluttered...
I drum on an ocarina-gong in the dark. My weird music summons a choir of
fierce angels, who send a wave of tingling energy surging through me...
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!...
Dead fish in a poisoned stream, dead kittens in a pit...
and advice from the woman who revives them with a touch.
I was barren. I asked Asklepios, God of Healing, to make me pregnant. Soon I was--for 3 years, until...
Worldwide drought. I have a mutation making me produce lots of saliva, so to keep
people alive, I drool into their open mouths. Gross, but it's take my drool or die...
CAUTION: UGH
Kellogg jabbed a wooden skewer through one tonsil. It got infected. In a lucid
dream, he willed it to heal. In the next twelve hours, the infection vanished...
Ballerina Joan Brady quit, but ten years later, returned. Her body rejuvenated! So what can MINE do?
I was sure I'd be wounded, but dreaded being crippled. So I tried on injuries! I settled on a flesh wound in my left shoulder...