I fall in love, defying kidnappers, dwarf-tossers and
Toulouse-Lautrec, until I become a time-traveling bunny...
CAUTION: SEX, SHAMANISM, DWARF-TOSSING (LAUTREC!)
After he died, I dreamed that the phone rang and when I said "Hello"...
Are dreams really so ephemeral? Lewis Carroll, who built the Alice books from dream-shards, wasn't so sure...
High-voltage traces of our lust and love flowed through our mattress nightly...
until one night when the power surged and overflowed. Then I felt you...
Edgar Allen Poe confronts his dead girlfriend, who wants to drag him into the grave with her...
CAUTION: HUNGRY GHOST, SEX TALK
I dreamt my friend Anne Sexton's death was on the news.
I woke, the phone rang, and I learned she'd...
CAUTION: SUICIDE
My dead friend Charlie and his sister and I are driving around Lake Erie.
We know it's a dream and he's dead, and yet we're joyous...
In our marshlands, tides, birds, dogs come and go; but must our friends and lovers, too?
CAUTION: AIDS DEATHS
four death-omen dreamlets, one predictive
Every decade or so, I dream a loved one says farewell and walks
down an avenue of trees. I wake to find that person's dying...
I was moved that Betty came to see my two babies despite her illness, but shocked when her father told me...
My son Billie, his Navy uniform soaking wet, cried "Oh, Mom--it's so terrible!"
and shrank into a baby again as I held him...
CAUTION: EXPLOSION
Giving up a circle of friends is like the collapse of a sun--do you dry up like a raisin... or explode?
My job's to clarify people's deepest wishes. But when I meet two women who truly want to die...
CAUTION: SUICIDAL IMPULSES
My friends destroy all my old films and give me a 'new' one--but it's from 1900! Then I wake to find...
Humanity improves a river to death, so the river just disappears. Ominous since it’s the river of nature, time and God...
Indiana: Father's favorite clock, a cuckoo clock, stopped at exactly the time he died...
Florida: an old clock silent for years started up at 10:20, the time of my husband's death the day before...
I model with ten blonde clones. They want to be seen as individuals, so it's their last fashion show before...
I'm in a restaurant when my dad walks in. He looks great; he has
both legs again. We talk, say "I missed you", we hug lovingly...
In the paper factory where my dad worked all his life, I find him on
his deathbed. Even as he fades, he's still trying to please his bosses...
Alli/Tip could only imagine loving the strange, intense, and unavailable--and Bronte was all three..
While going through a painful breakup, I kept having sexy, lucid, psychic dreams...
I lead my daughter up a thorny path; she’s getting scratched. She'd rather stay in that fishing village below...
I dream I have just six months to live. I go through a dozen phases and moods, preparing for death...
A young dragon, raised as human, is finally setting out to see the world on dragon-terms...
After trespassing in a staff-only part of Faerie, I'm cast out.
Only I'm cast like a seed, meant to grow a new elf circle...
An elephant sinks in the North Sea, and the Oracle Mink says a wizard did it. Can old Lady Gandalf help?
DREAM: Lu's best friend had to go away. They composed poems on the sadness of parting...
DAYS LATER: Lu learned that on the night of his dream, his friend had been killed in an uprising...
Lanyi dreamed in detail of the assassination of his friend Archduke Franz Ferdinand hours before it happened...
As I write a sad sex dream, a madman curls up fetally in the road outside my window. I'm slow to call 9-1-1, and...
I found myself in a cafe in Amsterdam--or was it Sevilla?--with Kevin, who I knew was dead...
CAUTION: GRIEF
Examples of inexplicable moods that appear (after the fact) to be reactions to future events...
On my 45th birthday, at the end of my eight-year dream-art project, I dream of a women's rite
turning scraps of chewed flesh into a whole fish I offer to the fishbowl in the heart of the Vatican...
A dying colleague haunts me all night. He says "crossings are often unpleasant" but death's not bad...
I oversleep. A lot. All my friends are dead, along with my century...
As my brother was dying, I had a series of vivid premonitory dreams about him. But I was unprepared for...
Not long after Jake died, I dreamed he took me on a magic carpet ride. Since then, I've been flying...
Soon after my friend and mentor James Merrill died, I had recurring, elusive dreams about him...
The Mummy chases me, then unwraps his bandages to show the mutilated face of my boyfriend.
"I'm getting out of jail!" he says. Then the phone wakes me. My boyfriend. He says "I'm getting out of..."
CAUTION: CODEPENDENCE, MUTILATION, GUILT AND GRIEF
After a summer apart I dream my friend John and I fly hand in hand. Bliss! Strange, he has long hair and no beard...
CAUTION: OFFSTAGE MURDER
I dream of German dirges I don't know. I hum them for a friend, who shocks me by asking
"Have you abandoned any children, or burned a manuscript?" Right on both counts...
Why'd a spirit-woman come to our reservation to mourn a drowned guy? Her mirrors & candles tell us...
Lunar terraforming lags behind Mars; a global ice storm hits, like the bad old days. But the future...
For years Martin's dreams were all set in a parallel world untouched by World War, until...
I wake up as someone else. I go through her working day, till Captain Kirk comes to take me to...
Illness is such a handy excuse when you need solitude, care, rest, or just time to think... but...
Lincoln dreamt his body was lying in state in the White House. A guard said he'd been assassinated. Two weeks later...
I dreamed I was riding a lion. A few days later, when my husband suddenly left me, I recalled the dream and...
As a kid I was haunted by the parallels between Menolly of Pern and me...
I'm a shaggy primitive whose tribe's outgrown our caves. We migrate, and meet two new species of people...
I'm scheduled to fly the first antigravity ship to the moon--if I can just get to the pad on time...
An animal-girl I know lives like a sine-wave, first forward in time, then backwards, dying at every zero...
After Myrna's husband gave up diabetes treatments to die at home, one night she felt him behind her in bed, and he whispered...
I wished I could kiss my son farewell. That week, Ethel called. "I dreamed Ned kissed you, not me!
I was hurt. He laughed like anything and kissed me too..."
On New Year's Eve, I dream my college no longer welcomes me.
New Year's Day, I wake to find it's true...
I move hundreds of miles away to escape my family's psychic broadcasts. Pathetic, but... does it work?
A doomed, orphaned ottercub meets the last Tasmanian Wolf, who makes a hard choice I couldn't. Or... did I?
CAUTION: BIRTH SCENE (MARSUPIAL/NON-GORY)
We're spirits over a volcanic fountain of energy. And some of us prepare to ride the current up to...
CAUTION: ASSUMES MYSTICAL LITERACY
A vagabond king showed me the way into Faerie, and it made my fortune. But now it's time to pass the gift on...
Millay dreams her lover's attacked in the street, and wakes to realize it's already happened; he's lost.
Trapped in elementary school, Julie is forced to study the alphabet
until she declares "I'm a professional cartoonist, goddammit!"...
I'm a kid in Nevada around 1950, learning that both my folks are lone wolves who gave me a genetic double dose...
CAUTION: RACIAL THEORY ABOUT... LIBERTARIANS?
Cops hunt my girlfriend & me all over town. Strangely, whenever I ask them to back off,
they do! Alma's resigned--lets them arrest her and put her on a raft. But she turns into a...
For years the Sea-Wolf enslaved me. He said I had to fight him and win to be free. I'm ready at last...
A summer love affair with a shapeshifting alien turns awkward when she gets a high fever, and...
CAUTION: UGH!
Jung and a little brown man shoot down Siegfried the German Hero, riding his chariot of bones. Wait... his what?
CAUTION: GRIM
My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet...
Lost in the snow, I must give my baby to a stranger or let my dad put him in a box, safe, forever...
A vivid nightmare that turned out a week later to be devastatingly true ...
I meet a woman on an oxcart who's sure we all want to poison her--
but in a way her affliction's made her forgiving, even noble...
CAUTION: MADNESS
I've had premonitory dreams of friends' deaths, but never ones clear enough to spur action...
Ted died of CO2 poisoning in Hong Kong. His mom dreamed he came to tell her
it was painless. To prove he was real, he told her...
Those Hollywood lovers in the tub seem perfect together, until... oh, read the title!
CAUTION: RACE- AND GENDER-BENDING
What the world looks like when you have environmental illness, like me...
The stranger seemed to know me. He said "Tell her about the little dogs, it will comfort her." Two weeks later...
We were inseparable: the tiger, the fox, and the wolf.
Together our magic lit up the darkness around us, until...
My brother Henry lay in a metal casket. He wore a suit of mine. On his breast were white roses, with
one red at the centre. A few days later, the boilers of the riverboat Henry worked on exploded...
My family home's invaded by ancient Egyptian architects. So
I put on my unicorn mask and eavesdrop on their plans...
My friend Verity's given a beautiful set of wings. I'm envious until I consider what angel wings imply...
My father-in-law looked me in the eye and said, 'Florence, the Lord is my shepherd and we go in peace'...
A huge wolfhound tore past me. My blood froze. The Wild Hunt was carrying off a soul...
A world-mind I never really liked dies generously, helping others; so I make my peace with it...
A yuppie idealist discovers her boyfriend's a cheerful opportunist, and they disentangle their lives...
CAUTION: SEX IN REVERSE