From Hawaii to Wyoming, I fight for beauty, always waking to find I'm someone new...
Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted?
I'm in suburbia for the End of the World. A Vortex eats the block, licks at me. So I click some icons:
CAUTION: CRUDE LANGUAGE. OH, AND THE APOCALYPSE, TOO. I FORGOT.
I'm Jean-Luc Picard, and my Enterprise has been taken over by a pack of brilliant, paranoid wolves...
I'm a hot archeology student till I open the wrong tomb. A plague turns us into green moldy monsters...
CAUTION: DISEASE, DEATH, GRIEF, SHAME
I'm slipping dimes into a boulder of jade: a vending machine that fills every order wrong. Why feed it? Well...
I'm a hobbit woman in Los Angeles, hiding a magic weapon from Sauron. No, not THAT weapon...
Flying in a wild wind, I mate mid-air with an alien, get pregnant, change sex, fight the inlaws...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
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
A narrative mural on the sexiness of dancers, as I became one--at the moment I lost my old geeky self...
A girl in my dance class stretched like making love to the air. But when I drew her, a black wolf...
CAUTION: WEREWOLF SEX
The image got lost, but the words survived, so here's the poetic saga of an ant that left th' farm...
In a stadium somewhere, watching a game where a slender reptilian man pitched rocks...
I was anorexic for years before I found I was allergic to many foods--I had good reason not to eat!...
A baby's own skin secedes, forming a snake. It prepares to eat the skinned baby. Shall I intervene?
Since I've been seeking out, talking with, and turning into unicorns a lot in the last few years...
CAUTION: ANTI-FUNDAMENTALIST
Me and my sisters at the beach. Strangers rarely think we're related, and you can see why...
Wise advice from a funny looking centauress at a nude beach...
CAUTION: CRUDE NUDE
A nightmare. I go lucid as the bullets tear through me. Yet I go on with the dream! Why?...
CAUTION: NIGHTMARISH VIOLENCE
My foot is a torso and my toes sprout conflicting personalities...
CAUTION: STUPID CARTOON NUDITY
I take a shortcut with the Warm Fuzzies through the center of the earth, and now I understand volcanoes...
I walk into a bar in ancient Greece and this woman's guardian angel acts racist. OK, I'm an ogre. So?
CAUTION: ANOTHER HANDGUN TRAGEDY
I was a intellectual ballerina trying to stop zombie monsters from hatching out of the Earth...
We're air pirates running a music shop, till our biplanes are hijacked by cat angels! Furious, we set out...
The manhunt is on for Donald Trump, rich sociopath. But he too is pursuing something: happiness...
My sister Althea decides my house has demons, and hires an exorcist who botches things, so that...
I did what I love. The money didn't follow. So now I have to guard a crimeboss at a theft convention...
CAUTION: INEVITABLE CHEKHOVIAN SHOOTOUT
I force the governor's chief aide to tour the new prisons for us artists, fags, and niggers. He's appalled--but how many more noses must I rub in the governor's racism?
A chronological orgy of my self-images from childhood on: horses, geeks, girls, satyrs, boys, monsters...
CAUTION: SEX
Not a dream image, as far as I can recall. Just looked like it should be...
Having psychic dreams is awkward. People bite you for seeing their secrets...
Buddhism is a 12-step program; it has its pitfalls for those of us who already detach all too easily...
How Bach sounded to me after seeing Fantasia...
My dad has a time machine, so he generously invites the King of Persia over. And offers him MY room...
A cowgirl is driving us in circles round the dusty parking lot, fleeing the air-sharks... or is she?
A poem linking the dawn of digital art to early, tinny phonographs, cranky film cameras...
CAUTION: IDEAS
A road trip through New Mexico mutates into a tour of my relationship disasters...
We see patterns everywhere... but that also means we relegate nonpatterns to the background...
As Red Emma said, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution..."
No Man is Island. So Men say. I am not a Man...
A catalog of American addictions and the absurd distinctions we make between them....
CAUTION: EMBARRASSING DRUG LIST
I'm a small planet in an eccentric orbit: a one-day summer, a two-day winter. Rest and hibernate, or...
CAUTION: SLACKER ETHIC
At least fantasy and science fiction address my life-issues; "realism" just declares me nonexistent...
A hero has solved all Earth's problems. Now what? A trucker friend invites him on a road trip to Mars...
This image is senseless, but I have an excuse: I was watching TV in my dreams. TV on another world...
Slightly altered to remove the familiarity, but this is quite real...
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
I visited the first bioengineered fox-person with working thumbs, to see what she thinks of hands...
I'm a Japanese werefox, longing to reach the Isle of the Blest; but dare I swim for it?
A perfectionist gardener builds perfect planterboxes while his seedlings starve. And so I left the burbs...
When I was battered, I briefly lived on the streets. What struck me was how fragile most of us were...
CAUTION: GRIM
A surreal dream of a levitating man reeled in like a kite, the night after I’d flown from New York to Hawai’i...
An ancient pictograph inspires me to try a meditative technique: shrinking and letting myself be eaten...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
Early Euro and Indian art liked bilateral symmetry; old Japan liked careful asymmetry. I like self-similarity.
The first thing any beginner does with a paint program is behead someone. Why?
CAUTION: PAINFUL SPLINTERS
I'm a fat guy hired as a temp by some unethical gods. Or are they trying to teach me something?
I visit the underworld court of the Lizard King, but I can’t leave: he makes me Queen...
CAUTION: MARITAL RAPE (NON-GRAPHIC)
Forced to turn gladiator, I learn these slaves think our free world outside is just another game...
Animal poets at an open mic. My turn! And I find... I'm one. A creature without grammar...
From a paleolithic doodle--an early self-portrait rebelling against my gender, and trying on beauty...
Ariana's a brilliant young writer, but how she plans to escape her family is alarming...
CAUTION: TEEN PREGNANCY, SKIN MAGS, BAD CAREER PLANNING
My friend the Polygamous Pilot is up in an ice-storm, hanging powerlines on the sky, when...
I'm a telepathic rabbit defending our world from space-laser attack. We do, but do we modernize too much?
CAUTION: IDEAS
Some Christian oneirologists barge into the Haunted Firehouse. But I pose for nude unicorn photos, and...
CAUTION: DUMB CHRISTIANS, EXHIBITIONIST UNICORNS, ETC.
I dreamed I slowly climbed out of guilty longing to an exciting climax on the Escalator of Love...
CAUTION: CARTOON SEX, NUDITY, GENDER POLITICS
I'm a girl in a Catholic school. But a chance photo and the length of my bed combine to change my life...
CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, CHRISTIAN-NEGATIVE
The tale of the most truly sincerely religious revelation I've ever witnessed...
CAUTION: REAL WITCHES
When things fall apart and the center cannot hold and mere anarchy is loosed... I tend to giggle.
This place isn't out of my dreams, it just looks like it. It's real real real...
I had a horrible realization that computers are useless, and I tried to make it beautiful...
I'm an elephant working in a diner. In the bathroom, I inadvertently summon the Genie of the Urinal...
CAUTION: PISSED PACHYDERM
A life drawing I added a guy to, turning a piece about loneliness sex and socks into a wish fulfillment...
CAUTION: SEX, SOX (BUT UNLIKE CLINTON, NO SAX)
I couldn't find the motivation to do enough figure studies unless they were sexy, so...
CAUTION: SEX
Just a witchmas card spreading love and paganism to all, and to all a good night...
I find the cure for an alien plague, then visit the world it came from, to find it has a curious variant...
CAUTION: SEX CUSTOMS OF THE NEWT PEOPLE! MY COUSIN'S GAY WEDDING!
I was at the beach with my friends. It was fun. But gradually they were laughing at me, not with me. Then they picked up burning sticks...
CAUTION: GRUESOME
A bear rips open my wall and guides me into a psychedelic space where I learn to see with new eyes...
Haiku by Roswila of a dream of meeting a winged horse, illustrated by her late friend Janet...
My Cambodian village was burned, my family murdered. At 12, I was the oldest survivor; I led a band of kids toward the border...
I never go on cruise ships but I keep dreaming I'm on one and meet the same man, and marry him--or his brother...