Biotechnology
I think a lot of these dreams aren't literal fears, but dreams putting together disparate things--parts of yourself, or friends, or aspects of a project--that don't normally go together, just to see what happens. After all, evolution itself works a lot like Viktor Frankenstein did. Stitch together some genes, electrify, and see... Oops.
Too bad we're the oops.
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ANDROMEDA: by Wayan; dreamed 1987/12/30; a Greek myth turns Jungian and Buddhist I dream of the legendary maiden chained to a rock, and the dragon coming to abduct her--but neither one is as advertised. They look strangely akin... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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ARMLESS: by Wayan; 1997 portrait of dream figures (pencil/digital) A strange horny frustrated being, part human part horse, who needs hands to grab the centaurs... CAUTION: NUDITY AND SEXUAL TENSION |
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THE ARTERIA: by Wayan; 1994/5/24, a raw, personal tale of three nightmares. Hypnotherapy provokes nightmares of body-part shops, secret libelers, and madmen in space... |
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BANANA MOON: by Wayan; 1998/3/4-12/26, dream-figure painting, acrylic on wood, 3x4' My figure-painting class here in San Francisco has a diverse student body, but not THIS diverse... CAUTION: NUDITY |
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BELT-SNAKE MYOPIA: by Wayan; 1983/12/25, a dream of innocent sabotage. A shy woman's belt slowly comes alive, but like most snakes, it has weak eyes. Would glasses help?... |
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BERYL BORROWED IT: by Wayan, 1986/3/8, an absurd dream. My top-heavy friend Beryl borrows my ass and legs to become a centaur so she won't fall over. But I want them back, so... CAUTION: CRUDE AND STUPID |
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THE BEST HOTEL: by Rick Veitch; 1994 or before; an escalating surrealist dream Rajiv keeps trying to convince me it's the best hotel in India: the orgy of biters, the bowls of twitching fingers. But it's only the oracular spirits that really impress me... CAUTION: CREEPY FINGERS |
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BETRAY MY ANIMAL FRIENDS: by Wayan; 1999/11/12, a dream of brainwashing. As humans settle infospace, will we cheat other species trying to evolve into people? Are we already doing it? Admiring & documenting creatures we've written off as doomed? CAUTION: NUDE CREATURES; DISTURBING PREMISE |
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BODY MESS: by Wayan; summer 1981, ink, 3x5" surreal nondream sketch. If artists do this with ink, what makes you think genetic engineers will do any better with flesh?... CAUTION: DON'T DO THIS AT HOME |
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BONOBO AND BEAR: by Wayan, 1999/10/14, a mystic war-dream. The gods of our cave-past and star-future fight over us--using us, of course. After I see the toll it's taking on a bonobo buddy of mine, I decide to bring the war back home, and go gunning for God--BOTH of them... CAUTION: APES AND EXPLOSIVES DON'T MIX |
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BREEDISM: by Wayan; 1989/1/16, a snappish dream of the future. I'm a reporter interviewing survivors of a plane crash--a puma and a pit bull. Can I survive the survivors? |
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CANARY COAL, MOLE-OWNED SINCE 1873: by Wayan; 1981/11/7, nondream inksketch on chemopolitics. No more token canaries--the all-canary workforce, that's us. Let's see if these products are toxic... CAUTION: ANTI-CAPITALIST |
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A CAT AND HER GIRL: by Wayan; 1979/5/15, a deep little dream. I'm a doctor in the future, trying to heal the neurolink between a girl and her cat... |
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CENTAURPEDE: by Wayan; a bizarre 1983/3/15 dream predicts a bizarre art job in 2002! Like a long molecule floating in darkness, this dream creature could loop and link to itself... CAUTION: EQUINE NUDITY, LANGUAGE |
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CLONE BREAKUP: by Wayan; 1994/2/27, 5p. comic of a psychic dream (or as illustrated text) I model with ten blonde clones. They want to be seen as individuals, so it's their last fashion show before... |
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CORPSE-BUG: by Wayan; 1994/12/1, an allegorical sex nightmare. I'm a hippie girl in San Francisco, in hard times. To escape the Four Horsemen, I lie down with Death... CAUTION: GANGS, CREEPY SEX |
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DEAD RIGHTS! DEAD RIGHTS!: by Wayan; 1983/10/1, a dream of the other side. I die young, to get it over with, like chickenpox. As I slowly revive, I face bias against the dead. So.. |
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THE DEER PARTY: by Wayan; 1986/4/10. A magical dream, Chapter 1 of a nine-story series: UNICORN TAG. An intelligent factory shows me a genetically engineered future where the Deer Party agitates for liberty, equality and... fertility? |
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DESIGNER: by Wayan; 2021/4/8, a dream of being a mishmash god I'm a world-creator, lost in mist, unsure just what sort of people to make-- since I'll be joining them. I'm only sure what not to make--or be... CAUTION: NUDE, FURRY DEITY |
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DETACHABLE PENISES: by Wayan; 2012/8/9, a brain-mapping conundrum dream I don't have an erection. I have two. But how can my brain register feelings from an extra organ it's not built for? CAUTION: PHALLIC SYMBOLISM? OR SOMETHING ELSE? |
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DEVANGELS: by Wayan, 2017/4/27, a numinous but ambivalent dream After a hard day in the recording studio, I dream of powerful yet obedient devil-angels; quiet for now, but I fear they'll decide shamans like me are abominations... CAUTION: ANGELS? GOLEMS? DEVILS? |
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THE DOG PILOT PROGRAM: by Wayan; 1981/4/23, a dream of doing the impossible. I get a job in China teaching bus-driving dogs how to fly. I don't know how. Luckily, the dogs... |
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DOG ON THE RAMP: by Wayan; 1989/4/6, a dream of love in a time of bias. My friend Lisadia sneers at a dog-girl's attempts to beautify her starship. I'm shocked--she's openly specist... CAUTION: SPECISM |
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ELBERETH PAUSES: by Wayan; 1989/6/26, a dream on postwar ethics. After the Lord of the Rings falls, Elbereth herself is sent to heal the land. But she has a troubling neighbor... |
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FISHERGIRLS: by Wayan; 2.6M, 42 illus.; 1996/7/15; a sexy dream epic. I had an epic dream lasting subjective weeks--a true other life. It wasn't Earth and we weren't human. I was a teenage lemur, sailing with two friends into unknown waters--a rite of passage. One night, my friends curled round me, I saw I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a woman, marry, and have pups. I loved my girl friends. In a world lacking the very word, I was groping toward queerdom. Sailing into unknown waters! "Here be dragons," the old maps say. And they were right... 2600K loads slowly? Try it in parts: 1: HOME, 650K, 2: VOYAGE, 1200K, 3: BACK 750K. CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM |
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THE FLASHBACK: by Wayan; 1985/11/28, a dark dream-farce. I'm a monster working in a shopping mall in Stockton, California, when I smell smoke... CAUTION: FILM NOIR SEX |
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FLUID REALITY: by Wayan; 1983/8/8; a magical dream-sea voyage that turned out to be predictive On my quest I find magic portals, snarky flower-fairies, undersea redcoats, reassembling bodyparts, living chess, and Nosferatu the Cheating Vampyre... |
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FOUR-ARMED SINGER: by Wayan; 1996/5/16; a dream of baring your soul . In our mutant future, a lovely horse-tailed four-armed girl sings her heart out--as clubgoers ignore her... CAUTION: NUDE CABARET |
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FOUR EYES!: by Wayan; 1984/5/28, a metaphoric dreamlet. I started life as twins, but slowly we fused. I still have four eyes, though. Then, one day... |
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FOXY ANCESTOR: by Wayan; 1998/7/25, a subtle dream. A famous inventor is descended from foxes. Their faces teach me something about beauty and character... |
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GESTAPO, OPERA by a 30-year-old woman, 1933; a dream of isolation & vulnerability I'm at my favorite opera, The Magic Flute. When I hear the line 'That is the devil certainly,' I think of Hitler. The Gestapo have a device that reads my thought, and come for me. Bystanders spit on me... CAUTION: NATIONAL NIGHTMARE |
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GET YOUR BODY BACK: by Wayan; 1997/6/11, a dreamed parable. A man dies--his body's chopped up. He ends in Hell. But he's a stubborn guy; he wants his body back. So... |
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THE HEAD FACTORY: by Wayan; 2014/8/24, a dream-poem on changing your mind I toured the factory where they make the spare heads you put on and take off to change your mind. Nothing creepy about it, nothing at all... |
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HIS DEER WIFE: by Wayan; 1995/7/9, a dream of love in a parallel world. I'm a slave, a scribe in the house of a Captain of the New Aztec Empire, when he brings home a wife... CAUTION: SLAVE SOCIETY, SEX, SPOUSAL ABUSE/NEGLECT |
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HITLER'S GETTING CRISPR: by Jennifer Doudma; fall 2015, a nightmare on CRISPR by one who'd know It was Hitler. He had a pig face, and he was taking notes. He said 'I want to understand the uses and implications of this amazing technology'... |
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ICK! DOGS!: by Wayan; 1990/1/3, a Star Trek dream. I'm Jean-Luc Picard, and my Enterprise has been taken over by a pack of brilliant, paranoid wolves... |
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ID FLOWERS: by Wayan; 1989/10/8, a dream of wish and fear The villagers warned me not to walk in the alien graveyard; for at night, the Id flowers wake... |
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ISLAND LOVERS: by Sunshine; 2015/9/14, a horror-film dream gone soft? They sneak off from a party to have a thresome, but monsters try to harvest their organs! Inept monsters... CAUTION: SEX (OFFSTAGE) |
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A JOB WELL DONE: by Wayan; 1981/3/2; a dream-farce with a serious warning The tale of a fawn named Fawn and her mom, a bank-robbing hippopotamus... CAUTION: GLAMORIZES THIS ALARMING TREND |
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JOIN THE WOLVES LATER!: by Wayan; 1980/9/4, a dream of false but useful fear. Shepherding a group of cityfolks through an alien wilderness, I need a werewolf's help. So why do I lie? |
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LACED WITH TERROR: by Wayan; 1999/5/3, an anti-nightmare. Researchers show me weird little objects like shoelaces that drive people mad with fear... |
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LOEWI’S NOBEL DREAM: by Otto Loewi, 1920, a dream that led to a Nobel prize. Loewi thought nerve impulses were transmitted chemically, not electrically. But he couldn’t prove it, until one night... |
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THE LONGEVITY INSTITUTE: by Wayan, 2019/5/7; a dream on a family mutation On the show Finding Your Roots, it turns out my dad's a genetic experiment born in... 1880?! The experiment worked; my sisters and I are slow-maturing, long-lived mutants... |
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MENDELIAN CHIMERAS: by Wayan; 2015/1/1, a New Year's dream warning of medical uniqueness I meet a girl who's a Mendelian hybrid of human, animal and peavine! But I'm no more human than she is... |
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MISFITS ON MARS: by Wayan; 1986/11/20, an epic dream; the climax of the dreamseries UNICORN TAG. 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... |
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MODELING A ME: by Wayan, 1994/8/29, a mirroring dream I find a 3D program that shows your true self, the self that can love, IS love. And my wireframe is... |
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MOLLY'S PROSTHETIC: by Wayan, 1994/9/22, a dream predicting a mood drug will fail My dad's new wife is a collie. Naturally, she wants a prosthetic arm. But she has no site to bind it to... CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY, LEERING BUSINESSMAN, DOG WIFE |
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MY LIFE ISSUE: ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS: by Wayan; 1994/1/2, a warning dream. I dream the real issue in your life isn't the one you complain about most, but the one you hide... |
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MY THREE HUSBANDS: by Wayan; 1981/2/26 & 1991/5/26, dreams drawn as a 15-page comic I'm three women at once! We marry a unicorn, a goat philosopher, and a magic talking cat. But cops raid our furry commune... CAUTION: INTERSPECIES MARRIAGE, TEEN SEX, BAD COPS |
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NAIAD AND GOD-DOG: by Wayan; 1980/11/7, a manipulative dream-tragedy. I love a Naiad who's lost her God. Tragedy strikes us. I'm devastated till I meet the aliens who explain... |
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NOT THROES; RECOVERY: by Wayan; 2013/6/1, a telepathic, diagnostic dream In a grassy depression, a small animal is thrashing. Death-throes? No. Calisthenics! But not under the animal's control. Someone's testing... |
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NUMB CUNT COMES ALIVE: by Wayan; 1996/6/18, a dreamtale on flow. My lover's half-mechanical cunt wakes fully--a first. But what inspired my dream wasn't a sexual first... CAUTION: SEXUAL SYMBOLISM
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ON HER FOURTH BODY: by Wayan; 1993/11/25, a psychic dream-comedy. |
A sexy gene-sculpted singer (an ex-cow on her 4th body) solves the riddle that's stumping Mr Spock... |
THE OTTER'S MOM: by Wayan, 1996/5/29; a dream-comic of the future. |
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) |
POKEY?: by Wayan; 1993/4/15, a dreamtale on my soul. |
My lover's turned into a tiny living pull-toy, trapped ankle-deep in a wheeled platform. Can I free her? |
POPEYE MUSCLES: by Wayan; 1986/7/14, a grotesque dreamtale. |
My body turns protean: big Popeye muscles pop out as needed, relaxing into stick-figureness... |
RIDDLE ON HER BREAST: by Wayan; dreamed 2021/3/1; a dream using sex to hide a pun |
I'm told a girl in an armored nutrient-bath wheechair has my shoes. I need them back. But to get them I have to answer the riddle written on her breasts. We both get a bit distracted... CAUTION: CARTOON BREASTS |
THE SEMI-INTELLIGENT ANIMAL PROBLEM: by Wayan; 1986/4/6, a dream of impulse. |
The army breeds super-smart animals. Scientists fear they'll upset ecosystems, if freed. No one speaks for the creatures... CAUTION: DIRECT ACTION |
SHASTA STANDARDS: by Wayan; 1998/9/19, a dream of social change. |
In a future where we gengineer ourselves instead of others, we no longer have to choose lesser evils... |
SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: by Wayan; 1978/10/26, a dreamtale. |
A demigoddess and a wizard meddle with humans. But do even THEY know what they're assembling? |
SPORECOUNT: by Wayan; 1990/1/5, a dreamtale on patience through change. |
I'm a hot archeology student till I open the wrong tomb. A plague turns us into green moldy monsters--at first... CAUTION: DISEASE, DEATH, GRIEF, SHAME |
STANDING UP CITY: by Wayan; 1970? childhood imaginary world |
As a kid, my Ecotopian fantasy city was hollowed out of living rock, with hanging gardens and terraces... |
THEY DON'T BELIEVE ME: by Wayan; 1989/10/4, an unbelievable dream with 15 illus. |
My dog and I are abducted by aliens who turn us into cats. We escape & go feral to survive. How we got back, and what happened along the way, even my own shrink refuses to believe... CAUTION: LEWD SQUID AND KLEPTOMANIAC BUGS |
THUMBS: by Wayan; 1989/6/12, a dream vignette. |
Worldwide, hands have gone soft and pliable. I meet some animals evolving into people and advise them.... |
THE TOAST OF CREATION: by Wayan; 1981/11/21, nondream crayon/ink image |
How the world was really created. God said "Let it be well done" and it was well done. CAUTION: TECHNOLOGICAL BLASPHEMY |
TWO-HEADED BEAST: by Wayan; 1997/7/31, a 5-page Gothic dream-comic (or as illus. text) |
In Castle Frankenstein, will Mary Shelley wed Elmer Fudd? His two-headed monster has marital advice... |
TWO WITCHES: by Melissa McClanahan, 2013/9/8, a short painted dream-comic |
Two witches, maiden and crone, ride a flying monster made of two magically fused trolls. But I know somehow that the two are really just aspects of a single powerful sorceress... |
UFOLUTION: by Wayan; 1997/12/19, a comic science rant |
Okay, say evolution is driven by things (I don't care what) besides natural selection. How could you tell? |
UNDO THE PARALYSIS: by Wayan; 1985/7/14, a dream on persistence. |
In a future society, I'm deliberately, permanently paralyzed. Yet my home-grown cure slowly works... |
UNHAPPY CAMPERS: by Wayan; 1997/9/1, a stupid dream. |
I dream we're on a miserable camping trip. So why, when I wake, do I think it's a diagnostic dream? It's that triple pun... |
THE UNMAKING OF A DANCER: by Wayan; 1994/5/22, a journal extract on dance and health. |
Ballerina Joan Brady quit, but ten years later, returned. Her body rejuvenated! So what can MINE do? |
A USED POPE: by Wayan; 1983/12/25, a Christmas dream. |
A friend buys a frozen used Pope, to navigate her starship with Papal infallibility. Call me a Luddite, but.. CAUTION: SACRILEGIOUS PUN |
USEFUL PIGS: by Wayan; 1995/1/2, a comic nightmare. |
In my nightmare, TV ads push new, supposedly eco-friendly uses for pigs, until this alarming ad... |
A VALLEY NEAR HOPE: by Wayan; 1984/10/17-19, an epic dream. |
I wander a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who love unicorns but fear cyborgs, who love ants but fear unicorns! And while the Three Tribes squabble, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four aspects of my tetrahedral soul... CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING |
VANDERMEER'S STAIR: by Jeff Vandermeer, 2013 or before,, a nightmarish creative prompt |
I was on a spiral stair. The walls had scrawled messages, not sprayed, carved or painted but living tissue--and getting fresher as I descended. Whatever was growing them was still below me, and still writing... |
A VASE OF FUR: by Wayan; 1998/11/18, a dream of a surreal future. |
A woman goes on a quest with an alien friend, and returns with only a furry musical vase: her friend! And from how the vase purrs, I'm not so sure if she wants to be changed back. |
THE VAT MESSIAH: by Wayan; 1985/2/27, an epic dream of magic, flight, and sex |
In our cult, we lie in vats of goo till we grow wings. But we're feared more than we knew... CAUTION: SPECIST LYNCH MOB, NUDE IN SCHOOL, LESBIAN FEELINGS, OBSCENE CARROT |
THE WEEPING BRAIN: by Wayan; 2010/12/5; an anti-workaholic nightmare poem |
My sister just bought a biocomputer: an enslaved human brain in a box of weeping skin... |
WELL-MEANING GRASS: by Wayan; 1982/5/17, a diagnostic Trek dream. |
On a gene-engineered world, the Prime Minister tries to assassinate the Bug Princess by tricking a well-meaning smartlawn... |
WERE-TROUT: by Wayan; 1997/8/2, a dating-advisory dream. |
I'm a one-legged hopping hermit in the ruins of LA, and my only hope for love is to conjure up a girl out of a trout and a puppy... |
WHEN THE SPIRIT MOVES YOU: by Wayan; 1996/5/1, an alternate-world dream. |
An empire of creatures asexual most of the year has affected its human neighbors--or bred a new type. |
THE WHITE MARE OF TRANSFORM RANCH: by Wayan; 1982/2/18, a dream of my anima |
I visit a dude ranch where you learn to turn into other species--see how others live. A white mare I barely recognize says Hello... |
WOLVES EVOLVE: by Wayan, 1983/11/11, a Darwinian dream. |
After seeing 'Rear Window', Grace Kelly and I are wolf children in a pack that's quickly evolving into... CAUTION: VIOLENCE, CHILD SEXUALITY, WOLF-SLANDER |
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