I go to a lucid-dreaming party, meet the Child who Dreams the World, and find the Body under the Bed...
My hometown floods. I swim after some strange fish and find
a scientific community where a scaled baby tells me who I am...
I mail some letters that will solve everyone's problems, but a man argues we need problems...
A nightmare of a killer who I let torment me because it's better than being alone...
The real Ambassador of Dreams was moonlighting, so I had to step in
and explain dreams to the waking world...
At a party in Animal Heaven, I fall for a rabbit-girl doomed to be human dinner.
But how can I rescue her? I'm Fate's part-time intern!
CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, INCOMPETENT ANGEL OF DEATH
I show the Royal Society how to fly! Confidence is the key. I teach a hesitant Fellow to lift off...
On an alien world I meet a judge from the newly discovered
galaxy of Antlia, and learn distance can lend objectivity...
ch.2 of UNICORN TAG, a set of nine linked dreamtales.
I married my childhood crush. Happy, till I overhear her tell my sister what she really thinks of...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
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...
DREAM: I write a book involving spies and Lord Snow, but give him a cover name: Artie Shaw.
TWO WEEKS LATER: My wife & I go on the Tonight Show; unexpectedly, Artie Shaw shows up!
I tell him the dream. He turns pale, saying "No one knows this--I wrote a book under the name..."
CAUTION: WILL BOTHER E.S.P. SKEPTICS
Jungian angels at a conference of dreams test my progress. But I'm all
backwards! Struggle with the easy stuff; zoom through the hard stuff...
It was a dark and stormy night. I was lost, till I stumbled on God
in her underground control room. God was helpful. Too helpful...
A party for me and my shadow, to celebrate that we haven't killed each other, just HATE each other...
The panther in the Jungle Books was really female. I grew up with her cub...
Silky, my sentient starship, gives me a scolding about playing it safe...
I meet a sex-kitten in the Underground Cartoonists' Bar, but her body language makes no sense to me...
CAUTION: UNDERAGE FLIRTATION... OR IS IT?
I'm a battered girl who sings in a mall. The Dictator (of all people) helps me start healing and learn to fly...
CAUTION: BATTERING AND ITS CONSEQUENT DAMAGE
I don't know beans about right action, so Kokoro, master chef
of the Bean Bar, teaches me the stages of true mastery...
There are many astral planes--this world's just the cellar.
A cat and a bird in love, a literate bear and I guard the astral stair...
The Goddess won't tell me who to seek, to love, just WHAT to seek--and what not to...
CAUTION: DIVINELY SANCTIONED TRIGAMY?
A bee-doctor in the city of Propolopolis diagnoses me as having a rare syndrome, Ambition Denied...
A black beetle insists I'm not needed or at home in the human world; my lifework is elsewhere...
As I hike across the tundra to win a bet with God, I realize I've been subtly betraying my dreams...
I swim the flooded tunnels and pass the crocodiles to enter the house of mystics... but now what?
A dream-voyage round the world on the Black Current, only to wake up back in my animal village...
CAUTION: GORILLA MARRIAGE
Chapter 8 of UNICORN TAG, though it can stand alone.
A packet of magic soupmix sends me upstairs to a secret wizards' lab.
They've summoned a demon they can't handle: the furious Black Unicorn...
I met a great blue eagle waiting to get into a library--but not to hunt books...
I seek a stolen magic necklace, but end up dating the thief, an elf-queen with STRANGE taste in cookery...
CAUTION: BAD SOUP
Giving up a circle of friends is like the collapse of a sun--do you dry up like a raisin... or explode?
I'm James Bond. Captured and questioned, I lie to the enemy: the senators of the
Committee on Intelligence Activities. Till I see myself through their eyes...
CAUTION: SPY SEX, SPY MENTALITY
The crystalline figure on the cover of the book in my dream seemed to hold as many answers as its title...
I search for family skeletons, but then a talking plant on TV inspires me to seek the sun and fly free.
But certain velociraptors and barbarian swordswomen object...
CAUTION: DUELS, FISH ABUSE, THE F-WORD
I'm a reporter interviewing survivors of a plane crash--a puma and a pit bull. Can I survive the survivors?
I meet a sexy seal-girl. Being single and desperate, I overlook a slight values conflict...
CAUTION: DISGUSTING JOB
A champion swimmer tells me how she turned a sexual humiliation into excitement and liberating power...
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, SHAME, PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY
I was led into the future, where all the buffalo disappeared, to meet a frail old man by a ranch house...
I met a god. Unmistakably a god. The Builder, hard at work--making Utopia, by hand.
On the beach, seated at The Piano, director Jane Campion warns
"Avoid Hollywood, they'll snip away at your vision..."
A sea-centaur explains why some dreams don't LIKE to surface to so-called consciousness...
CAUTION: WET T-SHIRT, EXISTENTIALISTS, HARPOONS
Humanity slowly 'improves' a river until the stream just disappears!
Ominous--since it's the river of nature, time and God...
People SAY they like realistic characters they can identify with, but they don't ACT like it...
I asked my dreams "What's my truest purpose?"
I dreamed my body was a tree, and a voice said "Chart the growth"...
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'm warily crossing an avalanche chute in winter, when my worst fear happens. Then the slide speaks up...
A bee-doctor in the city of Propolopolis diagnoses me as having a rare syndrome, Ambition Denied...
Mark Clifton wrote science fiction tales of mutant psychic geniuses--only he wrote from life...
Sexy frustrating dreamlets with a message, not about my unconscious, but about my CONSCIOUS...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
A visit to the Conches, a strange race of molluscs who are people only seasonally...
It's the Vietnam era; my draft board tolerates only a secret quota of COs. I decide not to tolerate THEM...
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 dream an economist admits not only that eco-regs pay off, but that economic theory is faulty. Dream on!
I sought a dream of Helpers. But rather than give me gifts, they gave me a daunting challenge...
Cartoonist Robert Crumb just turns off all taboos while drawing. A learnable technique...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, CARTOON SEX
I find the feminist principle "the personal is political" leads to some alarming consequences for privacy...
CAUTION: POLITICS
She asked "What, plus a teaspoon of knowledge and
a teaspoon of wisdom, makes three teaspoons of nothing?"
High school reporters spy on a college dance. But the real action's not where they say...
CAUTION: MAKING OUT, AND I DON'T GET ANY
I meet my personal demon, and discover it has a personal demon: me! Am I worse than my Shadow?
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, NUDE MONSTERS
Troutmet the moon-pigeon, Burtra the blackbird, a talking acacia,
my dead father and my dead gardener all give me afterlife-advice...
My sister & her new guru tests me psychologically--only it looks like a test to destruction...
CAUTION: EMOTIONAL CRUELTY
I struggle to write down a bizarre dream clearly and simply, but pen & paper both mutate.
Then a child prodigy explains "dreams don't always want to be linear"...
A ghost complains Herdis's grandma bothers her. Herdis wakes, tells Grandma, and they dig up the floor to find...
Dinner with Dracula goes well, considering, except for the mayonnaise. But suddenly I'm drowning!
No one sees or hears me. Am I a ghost, am I dead or alive? And how would anyone notice?
A panel of argumentative gods grant me a spare lifetime of piano practice. It takes that long, but...
The Duke complains things just aren't what they were. As I hear what he liked, I'm increasingly...
My new editor starts rejecting my poems. My new new editor rewrites them for me. I feel lucky not to be arrested...
A young, naive, ethereal dream gets an Animus to guide her through the crazy material plane...
CAUTION: GRATUITOUS WILLIAM SHATNER
After the Lord of the Rings falls, Elbereth herself is sent to heal the land. But she has a troubling neighbor...
I signed a prenatal agreement for weird, uneven luck to turn my life toward art and spirit.
I want to broaden it, but I've lost the contract! So my spirit wife Silky sets out to find it...
I meet a man who's lived centuries on an all-cannibal diet. He has ethics, though: he sticks to roadkill! Except...
CAUTION: EEEUUGH!
I'm at a symposium on how our beliefs alter not just the future, but the PAST...
CAUTION: CONTAINS IDEAS
On a volcano's rim, watching the lava fountains, I interview a huge blue alien bird who never planned to be a monk...
A woman explains why the subjective rate of change has slowed--we EXPECT life to be different...
I meet a girl who's 16 and 61, who tells me dreams are lives, not messages.
But then I must fly over a sinister parade...
A doe I meet is as horny and shy as me. We're similar: torn between desire and fear...
Then I meet a slacker succubus. She may just let herself get seduced toward freedom...
CAUTION: SEX
Coming down with a virus, I dream of a guy who INSISTS we must fight, it's just so FUN...
I found myself in a cafe in Amsterdam--or was it Sevilla?--with Kevin, who I knew was dead...
CAUTION: GRIEF
Why do the guests arriving for our seven-year reunion include
part-time giants and dog-headed gods? They tell me...
I'm a nurse pulled through a glowing well to a world ruled by a five-hearted unicorn, who wants me to...
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX FANTASIES, LONGING, MELANCHOLIA
I meet William Blake! He says "The will is given us that we
may know the delights of surrender." While in my bedroom...
After trying "the Interpretation of Dreams," I meet Floyd Freud, who's attracted to the neo-Nazis...
CAUTION: INSULTS THE MEMORY OF A GREAT GUY
Flying unicorns hang out with me and my friends, sending us
dreams full of useful advice--and more concrete gifts...
My lesbian twin, who lives in the unemployment line, falls in love with a pushy moose from Brooklyn...
CAUTION: INEPT SEX
I'm one of four mediocrities: all our efforts come to nought. Mum says "You're netted, but you can fray the ropes...
Three wind-gods are so revolted by humanity they want to kill us; the fourth says we'll kill ourselves soon enough...
The goddess of the Cult of Clutter catches a little thief, and tastes her to see if she's worthy...
I was the first woman made High Commissioner of Baseball. One day a team of mutants begs a franchise...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, BAD TEAMWORK, HORNY BEES
Freddy has plans for me and Telly Savalas's daughter. But to lure us in, he must know what
we want. But what does Freddy want? If we can find out, we might just lure him, too...
Freud and I argue dream-theory while we're stuck in an elevator that projects dream-examples on the walls...
At a benefit for Rock Psychiatrists, the Spirit of the Convention explains why I can't go on stage yet...
Gaia appears in a warning vision. However, she's not addressing humanity, but our silver successors...
Anna trusts to luck, but her mentor urges her to plan--"Think it out!" And what are these cards?
Gennadius re-dreams a previous dream, helping him see he's dreaming. His guide points out spiritual implications...
A hulking, intimidating young man is at my door, with two scary dogs. Wait, is that Carl Jung?...
I meet a wolf who invites me to join Dr Who's pack of sexy Ghost Wolves.
Just one catch nobody mentioned. To be a ghost, you have to...
CAUTION: FLIRTATIOUS WOLVES
A child from another universe materializes--part way. Too bad we called in that expert from Stanford...
I win a starship from the hostile Ghostmaster; in space I gain the confidence to confront him, and find...
Gisli had two spirit-wives who told him in dreams how to evade the bounty-hunters after him... for 13 years!
After 25 years I land on my native island of Wyre, to touch an ancient clay figurine, who grows young and wakes...
I hear voices: "The road to success is in Kafkat, in a place called Goshen." I look back, and see seven male shadows...
In a worldwide junkyard full of warring spooks, I finally meet the one whose message I need to hear...
I dream I'm addressing a dream convention, but I'm autistic! I MUST act bizarre, just to function...
A dying colleague haunts me all night. He says "crossings are often unpleasant" but death's not bad...
I go invisible in my dance class and hear what the girls I like have to say about me. Uh-oh...
CAUTION: PAINFUL RELATIONSHIP TRUTHS
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 dreamed I met a sort of hawk angel, but there was this preachy guy between us...
CAUTION: NUDITY
Inside an evacuated region, the Lafcadio Hearn Zone, I meet the monster thousands fled...
I change sex to infiltrate a sinister castle, unaware its Lord can spot a shapeshifter--being one himself...
CAUTION: A DISTURBING BEDSIDE MANOR. I MEAN, MANNER.
How's it feel to be an anima off the job? Is it lonely, when no one even believes you're a real person?
Three friends in one bed dream three dreams in one night about a talking rabbit with a persistent request...
A gorgeous healer bursts through the wall to tell me "I used to weigh 500 pounds. It kept sex away! But..."
I meet the mermaid goddess of love in her pool, but when she advises me, I dispute one small point...
Dream researcher Stephanie Van Zandt Nelson questions me on the roots of the art of dreaming...
Xerxes twice dreams a god orders him to attack Greece. So he asks his uncle to dream of the god to confirm...
On TV, the first Jungian anima to leave the unconscious is granting an interview. But the questions are...
Jacob dreams of angels climbing to heaven. He meets God, who promises
the Holy Land to him and his tribe. Jacob uncritically accepts...
Soon after my friend and mentor James Merrill died, I had recurring, elusive dreams about him...
Deep Duck's interview with Jasha the Krelkin goes rogue, as she urges tossing out human habits like... death?
CAUTION: REDWOOD-SPRITE SEX, PEEING ON TREES, DRUNK DUCK
I interview my own metabolism. Trouble in Cellville! I've got strikers and usurpers. But at least no invaders...
Writer Joan Grant, who was a psychic and trance channeler, got a sort of reading herself, from H.G. Wells...
Jung was told in dreams and visions that Europe would soon drown in blood. But he just couldn't believe it...
I found myself defending humanity before an astral jury, begging them to delay the great die-back...
The true story of the very first tree-hugger. Not Kerouac! You'll never guess. In fact, you'll say it's impossible...
I'm a dog princess, on a world where kibble falls from heaven. When I meet our species' guardian angels...
CAUTION: DOG NUDITY, LAWYERS
I was walking in the Mission, in San Francisco, when two sisters came up to me who no one else could see...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY
I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost.
We need an Imperial Dragon...
Deep in the caves, a Voice announces I've gone as far as the human mind can stand. But ahead, I see...
When I wake up, animals rule the earth. How do they cope with specism? Well, it's complex...
DREAM 1: A man wearing long white underwear shoots me down with a machine gun.
DAY: Long John Nebel interviews me; his Freudian friend calls me a penis-envying woman.
DREAM 2: Long John and his buddy umpire a rough baseball game. Definitely not cricket...
CAUTION: SEXISM, FREUDIANS, PUNS
Creatures in the primal sea touch my third eye, dragons cry their eyes out, I fight the Sphinx, and arrive at last in...
I'm in a loving animal dance troupe, but wake to find I'm alone.
For consolation, I eat at The Terrace, and meet stars. Not film stars...
An avian friend of mine researches a whirlpool. But it doesn't want to be studied, and it has friends too...
My dentist (a Haitian Mafia leader) sends a message to my dad (also a Mafia don) by dental cruelty....
A bear-girl seduced by her coyote professor gets a
little advice on revenge from her anthropologist mom...
Jung (at age three and a half) sees a terrifying god deep underground, and is told "That is the man-eater!"...
At the end of my long, tiresome tour of Hell, it's feeding time in the cage of the Manson cult...
CAUTION: SO MEAT REALLY IS MURDER!
I'm a small boy in a ship docking in Mars Orbital Station. I meet a strange man: myself as an adult! Uh-oh...
A park in San Francisco has melted into a bizarre mutation-zone. Its guardian is a lonely elf-woman...
CAUTION: ELF NUDITY
At Sea-Dragon State Park, I climbed down to the sea serpent's dressing room after the show, and found...
CAUTION: MERMAID BREASTS
After singing dream songs on stage, I dream of a girl on a talkshow displaying the strangest vagina in history...
CAUTION: NUDITY
From the punk clubs of Frisco to the Safeways of Si Valley to the vermilion sands of Mars,
Silky the were-nightmare fights for the Misfits against every cliche in science fiction...
I was an avian Mr Niceguy with sore knees, till I got some advice from my supposedly extinct big brother...
I meet my own mistrust: an angel who can't trust ME! So she turns me into a football-playing ant...
A conversation with a telepathic unicorn-lion reveals that my true name is Wayan. And my species?...
I love a Naiad who's lost her God. Tragedy strikes us. I'm devastated till I meet the aliens who explain...
Natalius dreamed that angels whipped him for joining a heretic cult, and woke to find welts on his back...
I dream the new Dalai Lama's a kind woman who gives me startling health advice
AND shows me how to fly. The next day...
Before I was born, I set up this life to learn loneliness, boredom and fear. Good move, soul! No vacations?
I fall in love with my sculpture of a mythical Southeast Asian creature. Then a mad yogi breaks in...
CAUTION: SEX, TANTRA, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS
What if your mind doesn't think it's yours? What if it's not so sure you're even a person?
I meet the original Adam. He complains Eve neglects him, but he hopes to meet one of his cleverer descendants...
I slept on an island in a scalding hot spring, praying for a dream. I got one--and woke up on the shore...
A hypnotist elicits a personality inside me who says he obliges my paranoia by giving me weird luck...
My art teacher said "Draw a spiritual experience." I tried, but that night, I dreamed of sharp-toothed...
CAUTION: TOPLESS MEDITATORS
Jesus's disciples kvetch that Paul, who never knew Jesus, twisted his clean simplicity into a religion...
CAUTION: JARGON, HERESY (on one side or other)
I meet two Peacock Kings bigger than human beings, who chant blessings until I wake with tears drenching my pillow...
A man I loved goes into the Jungian depths, but when his anima appears in the mirror-pool, his nerve fails...
On a cloud in space I met an ape molding a model of Earth, glancing at the original far below. We were much alike...
The roots and reasons and back-stories for the nineteen virtual worlds making up Planetocopia...
I dream of a half-pony half-human girl who can't eat either hamburgers or hay. She figures out an appropriate diet...
Three big tap-dancing kidnappers is too many to fight. So I try admiring their kidnapping technique...
I dreamt the Goddess of Spring paraded by my house. I woke and leapt to my bedroom window, and there she was...
A huge spiral nautilus needs healing; its coils are coming undone, and if it dies, all on earth may die with it...
We sail to the Isle of the Blest, but God exiles me to Fargo, North Dakota. But God's up to something subtle...
I'm shown a crystal egg with a model of my mind in it. The mapping is unmistakable. How embarrassing!:
I'm swept off sea-rocks, as my scaly guardian watches calmly--letting me drown in the tears I shed...
CAUTION: DROWNING
I asked "I'm still scared to date anyone. Why? What's my next step?" That night, I was answered...
CAUTION: SEXUAL IMPLICATIONS
In one night Descartes had three dreams convincing him he had to change the course of his life...
I dreamed I was riding a huge toy train, and a gigantic rattlesnake was at the controls...
My girlfriend Raven dreams I keep poking her awake,
while I dream that a giant raven gives me weird advice...
20,000 years from now, a deer-harpist named Razi finds the Holy Wino's not quite the ruin he seems...
CAUTION: BAD PENGUINS, DEER NUDITY, RUDE DRUNK
Dreams and other revelations shouldn't be dissected--they need to be reveiled, not revealed...
CAUTION: INTENSE MYSTICISM
I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. A girl in my
tour group jumps ship: she dreads the white water of rocky relationships ahead...
CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS...
Blake was broke. Couldn't pay to typeset Songs of Innocence and Experience.
But in a dream, his brother advised him...
Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism,
blind to kindness--or is he just reporting Big Sur's true, mean spirit(s)?
CAUTION: LITERARY AND MYSTICAL
The Inner Theater. I'm duelling someone who keeps changing the rules. But so can I... can we make a deal?
I'm autistic; a TV host encourages me and another autistic kid to have sex on the air...
CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX ON NATIONAL TV; SERIOUS FINGER-POINTING
DAY: on the radio Carl Sagan calls those who've experienced ESP or UFOs "proto-fascists"...
DREAM: a flying pewter teapot orbits a round blue vase--like a starship round the Earth...
NEXT WEEK: My mom calls. She's selling that pewter pot after a century in the family...
CAUTION: DISSES SAGAN
I meet a female Bigfoot, who, to my surprise, quietly speaks my tongue.
She's mourning the death of her infant son...
A dream-lecturer says Shadows aren't just what we hate or fear, but what we admire yet see as "not us"...
CAUTION: IDEAS
My work as a federal shaman inspector involves judging a rainbow of traditions by a few basic principles:
My dreams are made of lovely carvable jade. Too bad my tools and skills suit our plastic age...
My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet...
Stolen by the Fairy Queen, I'm forced to nurse her great project: creating life! But her synthetic baby is...
I dream I'm an insomniac trapped in a flat full of snoring writers and reporters. Wait a minute...
The pier jutting into the sea of dreams has an 8th chakra at the end, where a lonely woman fishes for, um, sole...
A joyful song about ignoring your critics. The last stanza came verbatim from the dream...
I'm a wolf in an ashram studying astral travel with my spirit-wife. Our souls blend a bit, enraging
our guru, a minor Hindu god, who sends demons to make us stop this spiritual "contamination"...
A voice told me, "Human beings have a spark of the divine"...
A great war shrinks to wrestling, then hopping from page to page! Once they were worlds to me, but now...
DAY: I read Starhawk's Dreaming the Dark, on building unity, undoing capitalism;
DREAM: I'm forced to become Time Pilgrim, warning of the dangers of community--indeed, of unity...
My unconscious sabotages a lunch date with my friend Stephanie. The tricks get weirder, till...
Greenwood dreamt her murdered neighbor's ghost gave her tips helping her catch his three killers...
I dream the actors auditioning for George Bernard Shaw’s play are blends of human, avian, and lion.
Next morning I find a card from Shaw asking if I'd fancy playing a lion in his...
The old man sang in the empty church, then looked at me and snapped his fingers. I was filled with voices...
A vivid nightmare that turned out a week later to be devastatingly true ...
I turn shy with women I like. So I wish for a dating coach, who appears! Then I feel dumb: how come I...
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...
I dreamed the Earth Goddess invited me to live with her. She was lonely to be seen for who she was...
Dead fish in a poisoned stream, dead kittens in a pit...
and advice from the woman who revives them with a touch.
I was shown what veils the God in us: Blood (violence), Idols (dogmatism), and the Curse of Eve (sexism)...
CAUTION: FUNDAMENTALISTS (OF ANY FAITH) WILL SEE RED
I was barren. I asked Asklepios, God of Healing, to make me pregnant. Soon I was--for 3 years, until...
In 1985 I was flooded with nightmares about heads and necks. They had an unparalleled intensity...
A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us...
The stranger seemed to know me. He said "Tell her about the little dogs, it will comfort her." Two weeks later...
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...
My mind and my soul both apply for a job in Stanford Cathedral. Their rivalry grows to a shamanic duel...
In Castle Frankenstein, will Mary Shelley wed Elmer Fudd? His two-headed monster has marital advice...
Animal teachers, mostly equine, drag me (as I scream NO!) beyond plain dreamwork into shamanism...
Chapter 1: The Deer Party: by Wayan; 6 illus.
Chapter 2: Ariane's Honeymoon: by Wayan; 8K
Chapter 3: The Everest Marathon: by Wayan; 1 illus.
Chapter 4: Who'll Be My Love?: by Wayan; 100K, 4 illus.
Chapter 5: Dreamrider: by Wayan; 7K, a nondream interlude
Chapter 6: Half Shaman, Half Statesman: by Wayan; 170K, 4 illus.
Chapter 7: Eight To A Horn: by Wayan; 2 illus.
Chapter 8: Black Magic: by Wayan, 7 illus.
Chapter 9: Misfits On Mars: by Wayan; 300K, 7 illus.
A job as the only priest on an island colony sounded perfect, only I'm the wrong religion...
CAUTION: DOGMATISTS AND DEAD BIRDS TALKING
I'm in Middle Earth, interviewing dwarves and hobbits
who've experienced a phenomenon called Summoning...
My father-in-law looked me in the eye and said, 'Florence, the Lord is my shepherd and we go in peace'...
Why am I an outsider? Can I change? Even my dreams don't know. I wake to find my
meditation was a dream, and as much of an answer as dreamwork can give...
A dreamer I know dreamt she was fired by a Mr Bleeden. Baffled her, but made shocking sense to me! My dad...
I'm a Chinese kid fleeing the Japanese Occupation in 1938. As we near San Francisco,
I wake to find it's all my dad's dream. Wait--he's alive again? But he was never a refugee.
Is it a pastlife memory? If so, whose--his or mine?
I meet a ghost girl and ask her about death. I figure she knows first-hand. And she tells me...
I'm a cowgirl in Nevada circa 1900. In the canyon below Haunted Mansion,
I meet a broccoli-green lizard girl. Naturally I help a lady in distress...
CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE
A huge wolfhound tore past me. My blood froze. The Wild Hunt was carrying off a soul...
A mystic postman delivers a letter on the world's best glasses and a reply from me, telling how to find them...
A dream telling how to acquire mystic power: raw food, no sex, meat, or booze; just meditate in rural solitude...
CAUTION: EXTREMISM
Hiding in the woods I meet a Cyclops. But I'm not me, I'm the editor of the World Dream Bank...
You say you want to remember your dreams, but do you write down what you DO recall? And ACT on it?
I'm lecturing to a crowd: "Love's a win-win game, and abuse, lose-lose. But blame is zero-sum..."
DAY: while traveling, Zhuangzi found a skull. Wondering how it had lived and died, he slept on it.
DREAM: the skull answered him! It told of death, which the skull found preferable to mortal life...