An old friend's awakening from anorexic asexuality. Puberty at 30? And wait a minute... is she me?
I asked my dreams why my back hurt. They told me: pregnancy, marsupial pouches, snapping turtles...
Helping out some talking animals, helping to exhaustion, I suffer a fatal accident. What am I being warned of?
Our gods demand sacrifices. I let Mother mutilate me so I'd be unfit. But the priests turn out to be blind...
CAUTION: YOU CAN FEEL PAIN IN DREAMS
I meet a giant psychic baby feared by 12-step people. So I go to the beach and find I'm a shark-bit girl who can have her missing chunks sewn back in--if I still have room for them...
I lead my daughter up a thorny path, but she’s getting badly scratched. Shall I leave her in that fishing village? She wants to...
Distilling a dream to one key image can clarify it. But don't be ruled totally by traditional haiku form...
Terse dreamlets quietly catch World War I's effect on civilians far behind the front. Who died in the trenches? Faith...
Pa warns me to protect my paws. Gilt wounds my sole. A lioness eats a drumstick. Then a bus crashes on our corner--for real!
A staring Eye tries to break me, though his birds rebel in sympathy. But the cats and robots flay me. Yet I refuse to die...
Whenever I'm stressed, I build a set of luna-moth wings and fly invisibly. Though once a blind man caught me by ear...
I've always loved curves, color, dreams, sex, texture... and planning, too.
So one day I drew 100 black boxes in ink--no color, no curves, no erasure! And then I began to seek...
I was warned to beware the soul-devouring art in the haunted house, but I didn't expect to find an entire modern art salon...
CAUTION: ABSORBING ARTWORK
A rabbit shaman orders his apprentice to drape dead hedgehogs round her neck til she bleeds. Ow! What’s his problem? Well...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, ABUSIVE MENTOR
I meet some cute dancers, but rather than flirt, I just try ballet leaps too. I get more than I bargained for...
My dentist (a Haitian Mafia leader) sends a message to my dad (also a Mafia don) by dental cruelty....
I'm a mouse trapped and tortured in a maze/machine who gets killed four different ways at once...
CAUTION: OW, OW, OW, OW
The first two dragons numb my pain. I demand it back, and soon regret my haste. But the third dragon I seduce, for I'm a dragon now...
I show an Ohio friend the latest California sport. Of course we haven't worked out how to land just yet...
I meet my true love during a coup. We go through Hell together, like Orpheus and Eurydice--only we...
Three men torture my friend (or is he ME?) and try to keep me from intervening...
CAUTION: FAST-TALKING BULLIES
"Our resurrection is not entirely in the future; it's also in us, it begins, it's already begun..."
We sail to Heaven, but God exiles me to Fargo, North Dakota. But God's up to something subtle...
My friend Chris gets tied up at the office--that’s his job, looking martyred! But when the boss is away...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Ragnhild sees a lovely tree rooted in her pain and blood; Halfdan sleeps with pigs and dreams he has a great head of hair...
CAUTION: KIDNAPPING, ARSON, AND GENERAL BARBARISM (look at the date!)
The feud between our magical families is getting ugly. Hawk-Head's dad throws boiling water on me, so I...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I dreamed I was drowning in the Sea of Time, where dragons asked me questions. PAINFUL questions...
One night I had to sleep above a cheese shop. I dreamt I was trapped in a huge cheese, as a horde of rats gnawed...
CAUTION: YOU ARE LUNCH
Howe's sewing-machine design didn't work until, one night, warriors stuck him in a soup-pot, jabbing him with needle-sharp spears...
CAUTION: OUCH!
I defeat the knife-wielder, in spite the blade in my belly I can't pull out. I may have to let it be...
My wound's taped up, but hurts bad. I peel off the bandage... nothing! Gone. So I check my other body...
I loyally served a demon who punished me until at last he sent me to hell. And STILL I didn't rebel...
CAUTION: BLOODY ABUSE
My German friend resolved to commit suicide, so I agreed to poison myself to keep him company...
I’m a drug-addicted amateur dramatist. A fat balding businessman and I bring humanity back from extinction, but...
CAUTION: TORTURE (brief), ADVOCACY OF WAR, HUMAN EXTINCTION (offstage)
Kingsford meets a girl who burns herself as a protest. K flips out! She rants “This is wrong!” when help is what’s needed...
CAUTION: RANT MIDWAY YOU'RE BETTER OFF SKIPPING
Lost in an industrial maze, my memories hopelessly out of date, I resign myself to be bound to the Wheel...