I recognized the saboteur. If I had neglected that dream warning I and probably all the men with me must have been drowned...
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
I'm trapped in a post-apocalypse pulp story! Fun for my readers, but not for me! How to escape?
Carl Sagan on the radio mocks ESP and UFOs. So I dream of a flying pewter teapot, and wake to learn...
In a Scythian church, a painting says "Little St Bridget was bound so hard that when they released her she flew"...
Astronomer Edmund Halley had dreamed of sailing to St Helena in the South Atlantic, but didn’t realize until he arrived how accurate his dreams had been...
The unemployed angel with her resume is the Goddess of Freedom...
Our starship signs up a strange new woman whose quirks turn out to be fallout from slavery...
CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES
I didn't know myself what this was about, till I had to write this note--and suddenly I got it...
I wrote my dreams each morning no matter what--even if I was late for work. They thought I was spacy...
A feral mare will only let me ride her if I quit being a Japanese diplomat and become... a Samurai!
In San Diego, I fly around disrupting the UFO games in the junkyard, till I reconnect with a centaur friend
At the beach, I meet some gregarious desert-world aliens who think loners are insane...
I find myself sitting on toy trains and fake snow as I'm told a fable: how a herd of department-store Santas got lost in a blizzard...
I meet a female Bigfoot, who, to my surprise, quietly speaks my tongue. She's mourning the death of her infant son...
I wake up with my head swollen, full of vivid bewildering experiences, without a clue...
A hard-hitting rap on Satan's dumbest disguise. Yet he's gotten away with it! The shocking truth...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE! SACRILEGE! MUCILAGE! (FOR THE BIG WHITE BEARD)
I fled a demon into a shadowy construction zone where an even worse telepathic lion-devil lured me in with soothing flattery. I woke shaking--and then things in my room began to move...
CAUTION: DEMONS, POLTERGEIST PHENOMENA
I'm a faun, the oracle for a Greek village. But my predecessor set up rituals I want to change...
CAUTION: SEX, PAGANISM, SELF-SATYRE
In dreams, I kept meeting a dinosaurian person who was proud, strange, beautiful. S/he introduced me to two sisters I just had to paint...
I visit a world of dinosaurs who fly small planes and live in glowing tree-cities...
A sexy meadow-spirit of my California drygrass hills...
CAUTION: NUDITY
A sorceror's apprentice describes a medical procedure her teacher plans. I sure wouldn't want that done to ME...
CAUTION: TALK OF BLOOD AND SEX
Alone in my blue room, I heard sax music. Two sunbathers were jamming outside my window...
CAUTION: SEX AND SAX
The feud between our magical families is getting ugly. Hawk-Head's dad throws boiling water on me, so I...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I was on a terrace overlooking a waterfall, where a giant rabbit and a musical dragon told me...
As a newsreel showed a Navy flier for the Schneider Trophy Air Race, I felt a violent shock and said "He's going to be killed..."
In the golden light of a primal Eden, my friends and I flock naked through emerald glades like wild deer, until the tower approaches...
Camping in strange mountains (Australia?), I can't sleep. So I nightwalk, and find I'm changing...
Flame-like sculptures meant to hang on the wall and cup living plants...
I smelled scorching paint; my old heater was about to burn the house. But I'd moved--heater and house were six blocks away...
I dreamed a sea eagle I saw as a boy led me back to my native Australia, to a Dreaming place. Later a 'spirit man' of the Mununajali in Queensland led me to the exact place I'd seen in my dream...
Aliens, hypnotherapy, dancing molars, riots, witches, flying pianos, lettuce... yet there is a point.
I can fly and breathe water. So I fly into art-rich mansions, though not to steal--I earn plenty from undersea massage...
I dreamed I was drowning in the Sea of Time, where dragons asked me questions. PAINFUL questions...
For years the Sea-Wolf enslaved me. He said I had to fight him and win to be free. I'm ready at last...
Sharp seams between realities cross Silicon Valley; I end up in the Dark Castle of the Oracle. When I wake...
Tilt a globe so neither pole has land to build icecaps on, and extrapolate. Earth becomes a warm, flooded world like and unlike ours...
I searched rivers and lakes around the world for someone dead. But the living people I met were as strange as ghosts...
A crazy security guard with a deadly squirt gun kills freely over and over, for the cops keep paroling...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I'm in Santa Cruz with my friend, a shocking-pink stuffed toy cow with sewed-on accessories: big red lips, a floral wig, and a third eye. I wake, draw the cow--and my sister calls from Santa Cruz to sing me a song about...
Two souls coalesce from bars of light into human beings by the power of words. Words like stupid, ugly...
I'm more a dream artist than a realist, but one day I set up a mirror and looked in it...
Einstein's tongue got its own poster, why shouldn't mine? But let's see even the Ein Tongue do this...
My sister and I are runaways, developing psychic powers. A cult of fish-selling witches wants to use us...
CAUTION: SIBLING INCEST, SPELL ABUSE
Reactionaries smash a paper. To rebuild, the editor must sell tiki carvings! But gods don't LIKE being sold...
CAUTION: MORAL QUANDARY
A doctor recommends Ellis try "selvdrolla", but he gets off so much on the strange name he forgets the prescription...
The army breeds smart animals. Scientists fear they'll upset ecosystems. No one speaks for the creatures...
CAUTION: DIRECT ACTION
One night I had to sleep above a cheese shop. I dreamt I was trapped in a huge cheese, as a horde of rats gnawed...
CAUTION: YOU ARE LUNCH
For three weeks he wakened nearly every night, screaming in fright; he said he "fell in a hole." Then, one snowy day...
Animal poets at an open mic. My turn! And I find... I'm one. A creature without grammar...
A dry little world with many small seas, Serrana has at least six intelligent species and an anarchist culture. It's a tribute to Ursula Le Guin's anarchist utopia, "The Dispossessed", and Kropotkin's theories of biological cooperation...
CAUTION: ANARCHIST POLITICS, ALIEN NUDITY
In our wizard-war, I've hidden my nature. At last I come out; but I can't tell the whole truth...
Howe's sewing-machine design didn't work until, one night, warriors stuck him in a soup-pot, jabbing him with needle-sharp spears...
CAUTION: OUCH!
At a party, a sad girl attracts me. But to reach her, I must have an affair with a sexy, frustrated writer...
Robe or petals? Head or lilybud? Face or tongue or clit or slit? An eerie hybrid of person and flower...
CAUTION: SOMETHIN' HAPPENIN' HERE, BUT WHAT IT IS AIN'T EXACTLY CLEAR
A creature that's half kitten and half baby wants me to pet it... I'm reluctant, but when I do...
CAUTION: SEX?
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)
Both of us were abused as kids. Sex is hard. So we go to a therapist who has us act out sex on the floor...
CAUTION: SEX, ABUSE ISSUES
The teacher of our sex workshop picks me for a demonstration in front of everyone. Gulp...
CAUTION: WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK?
I find a lost book of Freud's with a radical idea: Jung's Shadow is real, but there's a second Shadow...
My sisters get bored with the game of power, so I watch TV instead. But it melts, and a huge terrifying figure rises...
A puzzle-game of eyes and mirrors and shadows starts revealing the players' deepest secrets...
A dream-lecturer says Shadows aren't just what we hate or fear, but what we admire yet see as "not us"...
CAUTION: IDEAS
I love what dancers look like, seen over time, in strobe photos. Like weird undersea growths...
WARNING: NAKED CATS
A great teacher abruptly blanks out. Memory loss is scary, but in the empty moment, a deeper fear emerged:
My work as a federal shaman inspector involves judging a rainbow of traditions by a few basic principles:
Compulsively honest spirit-women with waterjugs invade my friend's house.
I wake to find my girlfriend's obsessing on hair loss. To calm her, I babble about limb loss...
and wake again to find she was a dream too.
Me playing the blues on a Japanese shamisen...
A summer love affair with a shapeshifting alien turns awkward when she gets a high fever, and...
CAUTION: UGH!
I'm a circus tiger, then a performing shark. One day, I block my human partner's high dive... Why?
My friend Mr D. was interested in psychic research but skeptical about psychokinesis. But 24 hours after his own death...
I'm teaching in a wizard's college near Mt Shasta when one astral world decides to occupy another...
In a future where we gengineer ourselves instead of others, we no longer have to choose lesser evils...
I ask my dreams how to find love. I dream of a 1920s bohemian girl teasing stuffy folk. But her pranks turn dangerous, then deadly...
Alternating stanzas by very different poets, based on Roswila's dream of bellydancing in the streets...
A strange thing appeared in the sky. It kept transforming--a light, a sheep, a man. It advised me to stop burning my head...
Floundering through the snows of 1917, I fall in love with a sheep named Linda Evans, who teaches ballet...
An Arab shows me a stone he calls a book, and a shell that speaks prophecies of the flood rushing toward us over the desert...
I'm a Japanese pearldiver; our family's cast away on a coral islet. One day, lonely, scared, I cast away fear...
Shevek invents time-travel and discreetly alters the past. But the future alters Shevek's present, to make his changes meaningless. Who's sabotaging him? Or should we ask... WHAT?
A sudden image of a woman whose other lips not only talked, they wouldn't shut up. Worse yet, they...
CAUTION: NUDITY
A Goddess-worshiping general gets a visit from her twin daughters who bring a puzzling message...
I find myself outdoors with my legs spread for a weird creature. I protest, but I love it. Later, after I wake...
CAUTION: SEX
My dreams are made of lovely carvable jade. Too bad my tools and skills suit our plastic age...
Dinosaur people demand to take our Ship's Boy with them. But he knows them! They RAISED him?
A fictional niece acting sexy in a shirt, plus... water balloons? I woke, and a friend told me HER dream...
CAUTION: DREAM INCEST, KIDS WITH GUNS, AND GENERAL WEIRDNESS
I tilted the Earth, and worked out its new ecology--part Mars, part steambath. Visit the Mediterranean Abyss ruled by giant ravens, Patagonia, ruled by mammoths, and Antarctica's jungles, ruled by lemurs...
My childhood home explodes into a vast pyroclastic cloud that comes boiling toward me, miles away...
CAUTION: DOOM
I distract a mad gunner in a crowd--I suspect I'm dreaming, but still... This may be noble, but is it healthy?
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS ON THE NEXT CRAZED KILLER YOU MEET
A man gets his big brother blamed for his crimes, til their sister makes him shoot his own reflection. But neither one expects...
I closed my eyes at work and saw an old man and a red-haired girl in a shop. My workmate was writing a letter home, and I asked...
I took my cellphone into the shower. I couldn't find the shampoo, and idly typed SHAMPOO in, and...
CAUTION: NOW YOU KNOW WHO STOLE YOUR ODD SOCKS
I’m the only one who can stop the plot to kill the Pope--but if he keeps shrinking like that, will it matter?
CAUTION: RECOVERING CATHOLIC
Robert Bly's books on men and mentors provoke a dream of co-opted Star Trek captains and rebellious midgets...
CAUTION: IF YOU LIKE BLY...
I love to play, but I'm a shy fox. And pushing myself to be socially brave has unforeseen drawbacks...
I play the lovers in a teen romance: shy abused boy, insecure girl. But I get tired of the script, and...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
I find a shy sphinx hiding in the corner of a painting in a dull art class. But maybe she's right to hide...