The dancers, in a frenzy, stripped themselves. Not just their clothes; themselves...
"Our resurrection is not entirely in the future; it's also in us, it begins, it's already begun..."
A telepathic unicorn gives me some subtle advice. I wake, and tell a friend, who easily proves my account
is distorted by my own biases. Telepathy's confusing! Wake again. Her correction was part of the dream...
A great director alternates hits and bombs, because in half his films he sets out to trouble his viewers. Here's one...
Cilda Spitzer and Hillary Clinton sentence America's bimbos to a shitty fate. But what of their cheating husbands?
An abused girl survives grotesque situations to become a job/health counselor with a talking sofa...
CAUTION: BUTT-SNIFFING GIANT
I am given a gift of "Nibbling Fruits" which only I may eat--because I've been feeding everyone but me...
It's election time in Europe, but voters have gone crazy. Nazis invade England. In my library, Sarah Palin rots...
CAUTION: POLITICS GONE WACKY
Fresh off the Beagle, Darwin meets three wolf-girls, but has distinctly Biblical inhibitions...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM, PUNS
Lucifer throws firebolts from a Montreal tower; monsters stalk us; next comes the flood...
In Palo Alto I meet strange musicians in the rain, and realize kitsune aren't born but made...
Robot wolves with videocamera eyes prowl our block, freezing me
in their headlight glare. Why do I think one's my ex-girlfriend?
At a party, I go hunting for my husband and find him on a terrace facing a Bengal tiger...
A horde of demented dwarves invades Market Street, jumping up & down, shaking the skyscrapers...
I'm slow to catch on that this skunk's slidetalk isn't a business pitch; it's about seduction...
CAUTION: ABSURD LOVE TRIANGLE, KINKY SKUNK
I meet an interdimensional traveler. Her navigational technique is unbelievably rough!
Yet it works. Am I so sure that math and science always need to be precise?
I'm living in an England rendered in chalk. We wander the woods with butterfly nets,
ritually hunting the White Deer--if that's what they really are...
A musical prodigy has a gorgeous, unplayable keyboard.
But serious creativity takes a dull, regular, ergonomic instrument...
A mare's brought in to save a rare bloodline. She's young but as extraordinary as her mate: part filly, part feline...
In a camp, women wove mats. I was tempted to try. But it was
months before I learned what they'd really been weaving..
A friend who's fought lymphoma invites me to sleep in a cave, but I fear a rattlesnake will bite me...
I visit a friend's ramshackle cottage--trees grow through the walls. But glorious meadows! Spring at last...
Is that a madwoman riding a horse, or a cougar pouncing on a deer,
or are these dream-creatures wildly making love?
1: Three sisters flash me; one has a third eye in there! Clothed, it's blind. Was she just enlightening herself?
2: In the future, most cars self-drive. I'm the last driver using my own muscles and mind. Can I hold out?
3: A friend charts all of history's wars to prove: democracies don't fight each other. So to get peace...
CAUTION: NAKED EYE
You'd think his Christmas wish would be "a new eye"; well it was, in a way...
An Oxford teaching assistant sexually blackmails one of his law students, but to his shock she goes public...
I dream the universe runs on Bollywood rules. I can stand the constant singing
and breakdancing; what gets under my skin is that Bollywood Code...
I dream of three colonies in the deep future. We outlived the universe itself, but can we survive each other?
CAUTION: WAR, GENOCIDE, POLITICAL ALLEGORY
Those Hollywood lovers in the tub seem perfect together, until... oh, read the title!
CAUTION: RACE- AND GENDER-BENDING
I find myself sketching the slope of progress up to the coming singularity, and notice a hidden stability...
A tiger-couple on an ice floe must choose: swim for land, or
ride the current full circle back home, risking starvation?
At first no one seems interested in my mural-design for the inside of the City Hall dome, but...
DAY: I work way too much--art projects plus helping a friend get her lost data back...
DREAM: A gun nut threatens me, so I claim I bent his gun. Really I just bent spacetime.
He flees atop his toy car, letting it steer--it's smarter than he is. That car winks at me...
I'm in a movie version of prehistoric Baja California, mining nuggets that howl,
when pterodactyl-worshiping pirates glide in trying to snatch our ore...
There's a large bear wandering the museum, and somehow I feel good about it...
When the school district goes bankrupt, students flee creditors into a hell-cave.
But Joe Cool can skateboard even on lava in the Pit...
I'm a revolutionary hiding in the woods. I wake to find an erect penis crudely stitched onto my crotch...
My friend Dawn drags me to a cultish workshop. But I fall asleep! Or is
that bad? The Financial Guru awards me $1250 for spiritual napping...
CAUTION: RIDICULOUS UNTIL...
I dream my foot has a huge bloody crevasse. But I study it calmly...
I'm pulling a cart in the woods. At a bridge over a canyon, owls urge me to climb down into the misty abyss, but...
I find a long, narrow table. I have a table, but a fairy friend
perches on this one and urges "Take it home! You'll do better art!"
I know we will cross the water surrounding the heart of Jerusalem, but not yet...
A hulking, intimidating young man is at my door, with two scary dogs. Wait, is that Carl Jung?...
I meet the new improved giraffe people with hydraulic chrome skeletons--
such light, powerful jaws and stretchable necks. Wow, Lamarckianism is back!
CAUTION: ANTICREATIONISM--THAT IS, ACTUAL SCIENCE
Night. I'm scared of the men in the park--till I see they're all gay. I dance,
and as darkness flares to dawn, remember how to fly--regain my falcon-wings...
That levitating bear's not tightrope-walking--she rides a goat strung like soap-on-a-rope. A goat that's me! I'm eating...
CAUTION: UGH!
My friend Verity's given a beautiful set of wings. I'm envious until I consider what angel wings imply...
A spacetime traveler inadvertently strands his pacifist vegetarian date in a gun-crazy mob-run town...
CAUTION: DEFAMES BYELORUSSIANS
THAT DAY: art nonstop! Put myself down for obsessing. Empty man!
THAT NIGHT: I'm in rural China. Two women tell me their village declared them
dead, killed by demons. So are they ghosts, or just written off by idiots?
MORNING: wait--have I been calling me dead? Oh...
In a domed tower, we all look up bewildered by a statue like an ancient herm, floating in mid-air...
The day after my mom outed me to my dad, I dream a great storm has passed and everything's just glowing...
I find myself sitting on toy trains and fake snow as I'm told a fable:
how a herd of department-store Santas got tragically lost in a blizzard...
I find myself outdoors with my legs spread for a weird creature. I protest, but I love it. Later, after I wake...
CAUTION: SEX
Around royalty, protocol gets complex. I love the Dog King;
despite her title she's female. Does that make her a...
I'm a girl in rural Victorian England working as the county's magical protector. I have my
hands full: a gang of thievish orphans has holed up in an invisibility tree! Showdown at the oak...
My neurotic sister and I both lust for a girl named Sky; then I flee a gang of popes and lamas and mullahs...
Trapped in a blend of Joan of Arcadia and The Tempest Tales, I'm tired of being the pratfall sidekick...
My family home's invaded by ancient Egyptian architects. So
I put on my unicorn mask and eavesdrop on their plans...
A child prodigy stands out in a chorus line of waterdancers. Her body is a patchwork of young & old...
A waterfall leaps from a mountain so huge, steep and distant its base is lost in the haze...
I get stuck with a one-year mandatory gig as President of the
World, just as Saudi Arabia collapses, and fools rush in...
A glowing sentient autistic button falls in love with a small boy; then I try
to make two friends change orientation and fall in love by singing 'Molly Malone'...
CAUTION: JUST... WRONG
A Buddhist scroll shows me Hell Cafe, where diners become entrees. But I read the scroll
backwards! You can escape Hell just by walking out, against the traffic flow...
CAUTION: CANNIBAL SOULS
As we climb down the steep mountainside, clutching bushes to keep from falling,
I ask Laura "Do you want another child?"
I touch the secret soul of a cancer survivor, upsetting her. To apologize, I become a goofy hopping god...
CAUTION: FONDLING SACRED FIGURINES
I dream I'm trying to understand how I write poetry, but then I recall my daughter's sick
from a bad prescription. So I try to research her illness, but our library's renovating...
My dreams are made of lovely carvable jade. Too bad my tools and skills suit our plastic age...
Divers made of ice win the Traffic-Leaping Olympics. But
I think they cheated! I seek my friend the Sphinx...
The older sorceress I'm in bed with plans to marry me off to a younger woman, but I distract her with my tongue...
CAUTION: BEDROOM HUMOR
By a lake I've seen in many dreams, four dragons attack. I become one too, and duel them in mid-air...
I find I'm a fox singing the Disney musical version of a canine epic: the tale of Odysseus the
Mutt and his purebred Big Brother vying for the paw of Penelope--and the throne of Ithaka...
CAUTION: POLTERGEIST
I find a shy sphinx hiding in the corner of a painting in a dull art class. But maybe she's right to hide...
Winged things lurk in the shadows. When I focus on them, they attack! Castaneda's teacher watches amused...
My kidnappers were desperate: no jobs. I fled them down the berry chute, to the underground
strawberry factory where engineers in go-go boots did the berry dance--and the berries...
CAUTION: STRAWBERRY FETISH
I'm a werewolf-girl in love with a gender-dysphoric weredragon in love with
a man who's very, very patient with all our crazy shiftiness...
CAUTION: NUDITY (SKIN, FUR and SCALE), SHIFTY PEOPLE (BI, WERE and QUEER)
The garden varies, but I have always turned away and walked into the whole world. So far...
I reached back slowly hoping to touch your long amber fur wondering if you might be a dream...
The flock of cranes called to the boy but he could not hear what they were telling him...
I was flying south so it was autumn, numberless autumn with its leaves already far below me...
I'm in the kitchen making a mess--kneading pasta dough on the bookcase. If my mom comes in and sees...