When I was a kid I was already a mystic and knew what Captain Ahab was REALLY after, but...
I'm a schoolkid in the future who finds an ancient book the censors somehow missed...
Edgar Allen Poe confronts his dead girlfriend, who wants to drag him into the grave with her...
CAUTION: HUNGRY GHOST, SEX TALK
I dream of Beren and Luthien happy and mortal in their forest, and wake to find...
Beagle's fantasies, from The Last Unicorn to The Innkeeper's Song, closely resemble my dreams. The ways we differ say more about our spiritual orientation than about our art...
I love a girl who wants to settle in a radioactive jungle, a scar from an ancient war. Stay or go?
Bradbury's Mars was based on his life in Venice, California. What worlds grow out of my San Francisco?
My writer-friend Cecy will do anything to get published. Anything? Oh, believe me, ANYTHING...
CAUTION: BONDAGE, not to mention POSTAGE
People SAY they like realistic characters they can identify with, but they don't ACT like it...
I'm Coyote, keeping the Business Prophet from taking over Dante's Peak. But it turns too personal...
CAUTION: IDIOTIC VIOLENCE
I struggle to write down a bizarre dream clearly and simply, but both pens and paper have mutated. Then a child prodigy explains "dreams don't always want to be linear"...
We escape the trolls, but then our author, Tolkien, breaks in to explain a word, and the rest of the night...
The Emperor of the Galaxy can't publish his anti-slavery book as himself, so he quits to become a slave...
A time-traveling historian's caught in a moral dilemma: warn an ancient prince he died of a fall in her history books? What do you owe history?
In ancient Britain, as Christianity moves in, I'm a slave--sailing through centuries, but never free...
In a rough part of San Francisco, I climb to the roof of a tower and jump off, but not to kill myself...
People have asked me if I ever dream that I am 'in' Harry's world. The answer was 'no' until a few nights ago, when...
After a bad writing class, I meet a shy catgirl guarding a Mongolian Hot Pot, and discover who I am...
I'm a brown sparrow scratching in the dirt, looking for bugs. Focused, tireless, I hunt and peck...
To reach the Peak of Happiness on the Isle of Dreams, I must pass four Perils--but they're all backwards...
CAUTION: RELIGIOUS NUTS, KNIVES, NUDE ALIENS, BACKWARD PLOT...
Writer Joan Grant, who was a psychic and trance channeler, got a sort of reading herself, from H.G. Wells...
At least fantasy and science fiction address my life-issues; "realism" just declares me nonexistent...
The true story of the very first tree-hugger. Not Kerouac! You'll never guess. In fact, you'll say it's impossible...
I dream a Chinese fable: how the poet Li Po was abucted by the gods, till they face heavenly justice...
CAUTION: ABDUCTION, DRUNKS, EVIL PUN
I'm Emily Dickinson reborn in 2100 as a peaceful breeder of hydroponic lilies, till my dad drafts me as an Arctic energy-prospector, where I meet a ghost, a fiery Beast, a new me, and the girl of my dreams...
CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, NUDE PROSPECTORS, GNOMIC DICKINSON QUOTES
Lions trap me in an African cave with only coffee, paper and pens! Is this what it takes to get me to write?
A book that kept me up late. Ariel and Robin get abused as subtly, as deniably as me and my sisters...
CAUTION: RELIGIOUS/PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE
I meet a shapeshifting dream-mentor who warns of plague and war (note the date). Then a sentient book, "The Art of War," gets intimately involved...
CAUTION: ELECTRODES, LIBROPHILIA
Advice from a successful writer of worstsellers to all you aspiring failures: unfame has its price...
I'm in San Francisco trying to throw Sauron's Ring into the Cracks of San Andreas. But a sexy sorcerer steals my sense of I! How can you act without a self?
Sexy dreams of Chinese archeology, authorized by the fairies, make me face that my family abused me...
I'm a telepathic rabbit defending our world from space-laser attack. We do, but do we modernize too much?
CAUTION: IDEAS
How do we make dream narratives readable, when most readers are raised to think they're nonsense?
Jung Chang's exposé of Mao's brutal deeds and legacy provoke dreams I demand that leaders listen...
I'm a peace terrorist trapped in Squaw Valley, herded like a mare by a huge stallion made of snow...
And then the dream shifts and I blurt out the truth behind our idiotic waking world! And wake believing it...
Cover of a book telling my dream of a sphinx who visits humanity and leaves her sketchbook with notes...
Stevenson's dreams changed over decades: from childhood nightmares to creative allies dreaming whole stories...
In an oneirophobic society, it's easy to forget that when you do dreamwork, you're doing basic science. No funding, no team, no lab coat? Can't be science! Unless they mistaught us what science is...
Twain saw a coffin with white and red flowers. Inside lay his brother Henry. A few days later the riverboat Henry worked on exploded...
In my dreams, a co-worker tells me HER dreams. Their focus is utterly unlike mine! Dream goals differ...
All I know about humans, I learned in psychodrama. I gawked as caterpillars grew wings. Except me...
We lose control of our new time machine, which seems to have its own agenda...
CAUTION: CONTEMPLATION OF SUICIDE, CHRONOLOGICALLY IMPAIRED DREAMER
A writer's found in his office mating with an ash-covered creature! But could she be his muse?
CAUTION: NUDITY OR NOT? SEX OR NOT? NO ONE QUITE KNOWS...
Most writers search for their unique style. Not me--I struggle to convey unique EXPERIENCES...
I wander a sunken maze, meet a playful woman, find a hidden treasure. Meanwhile, my friend Zooop...