Flying in a wild wind, I mate mid-air with an alien, get pregnant, change sex, fight the inlaws...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
I'm kissed by the Holy Aardvark, but my bond with my dad is strained by ESP he can't accept...
Alpine deer-hamsters, pigs, birds, children, even fundamentalists' daughters grow up and want to fly free...
I'm Bill Cosby's wife, finding it hard to cook for him without a stove or fridge...
CAUTION: SLANDER, I HOPE
Such pressures there are on the sick to act well! I implore you, ignore them all...
CAUTION: EXPLODING TEACHER
That day I read Hilde Bruch's "Conversations with Anorexics" and face the fact I am one.
That night, in the land where anorexic horses heal, I enter the Kiva of Shamanic Pamphlets, and...
I’m an Asian kid in Pacifica, California. My parents annoy me, so I offer them for sale on Craigslist. A cop appears...
In a parallel world, a visionary's building the first plane only now. I'm his assistant. But I don't WANT...
I'm the daughter of a mortal doctor working in Faerie as it faces social upheaval (and I look for a decent date...)
In school, I'm seen as a freak--lied to, set up for little pranks. Not by my classmates--my teachers...
A series of family shadows, as I saw them then. These scenes are NOT literal, do I make myself clear? But these tensions were real...
CAUTION: GRIM! SEXUAL VIOLENCE, INCEST, MUTILATION
Advice of a specialist on the care and feeding of child prodigies, embarrassingly relevant for adult geniuses...
My parents pray for my success, and arrange a great learning opportunity for me. Really.
A girl and I climb a half-built tower to get some privacy. What can we do before my nosy parents find us?
CAUTION: SEX, HUMILIATION, FAMILY VALUES
A disowned heiress and I sneak onto the family estate, but they'll go pretty far to hide their skeletons...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I’m an android struggling to raise a boy genius. But even human moms of prodigies share my problems!
The children of some castaways refuse to go 'home': to them, this shore IS home. So what won't I leave?
My dad has a time machine, so he generously invites the King of Persia over. And offers him MY room...
My mom hires a therapist who really goes for my throat! Why is she so desperate to make me lose my...
CAUTION: OVER-THE-TOP CONFRONTATION
A bear-girl seduced by her coyote professor gets some advice on revenge from her anthropologist mom...
In a Mormon future, my baby climbs a tree and spontaneously disintegrates! I try repotting, but...
CAUTION: BAD PARENTING
Many kids have nightmares that their parents AREN'T their real parents. I dreamed my parents ATE my real parents...
CAUTION: HUNGRY MONSTERS
Slightly based on a print in our bathroom when I was growing up--Picasso or Mary Cassatt?
A child of radicals goes wild in Rio. When we bail her out, we find she's had a strange enlightenment...
CAUTION: UNSAFE SEX
A brilliant, orphaned ottercub meets the last Tasmanian Wolf, who makes a hard choice I couldn't. Or did I?
Mom's gone, and our writer/bohemian dad's caring for us alone, now. He's barely coping. And he's me...
I pray for love and promptly meet Blue, whose mom treats her like a kid. We change that, but it's messy...
I suspect we child prodigies and geniuses are as unlike the gifted as normal people. So here's a checklist...
CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED
Child prodigies may develop allergies due to immunosystem damage from too much testosterone in utero...
News of a child prodigy who was given the support I wasn't, triggers a flood of envy and bitterness...
My family moves into a damp basement. My dad just sneers at the leaks. "I'll show you REAL leaking..."
I dream my watch is way off and I’ll be late. When I wake, I check my daughter’s watch. They agree. Can’t BOTH be wrong... can they?
The sea-captain, baby bottle in hand... The card of the warm man, the nurturer...
I'm on a wild trip to who knows where, with my young-again mom and my dead dad... and who's that other guy?
I'm on an alien world inside the minds of two women and a child struggling with moral choices in a civil war...
CAUTION: DEATH, LOSS