Writer Alice Miller tried painting her childhood monsters. I tried it her way and got a surprise message...
In a suburban alley, I learn how much of an artistic coward I've been...
At an anarchist fair in San Francisco, a 13-year-old punkette genius sings some shocking advice to me...
Edgar Allen Poe confronts his dead girlfriend, who wants to drag him into the grave with her...
CAUTION: HUNGRY GHOST, SEX TALK
I dream of Beren and Luthien happy and mortal in their forest, and wake to find...
I learn to fly from Arenna the moon-girl and Crest the dragon, in the House of Deep Memory...
Silky, my sentient starship, gives me a scolding about playing it safe...
I'm a battered girl who sings in a mall. The Mall Dictator (of all people) helps me start to heal, and learn to fly...
CAUTION: BATTERING AND ITS CONSEQUENT DAMAGE
As I hike across the tundra, to win a bet with God, I realize I've subtly betrayed my dreams...
In the future, books morph as they crawl round the web, till just the popular bits are left...
CAUTION: YOU TOO COULD BE CENSORED
By day, I bike across San Francisco; by night, I'm an abused English heiress with a dangerous artifact...
CAUTION: MOLESTATION BY DISSOLUTE COUNT
Quiet Blondie seemed sane enough, especially compared to her driven, talkative friend Crazy, until...
CAUTION: NUDITY, A LITTLE BLOOD
Throw a dream-crystal, or dangle it by a thread, and it'll point the way to go...
CAUTION: NUDITY
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 analog myself, but in Tibet, I meet a digital shaman whose body's a sort of ...
The moon invites me to go flying, but I get tired of magic and just want to go shopping...
Everyone wears a big cowboy beltbuckle. Twist it and your bodymass re-distributes! But mine...
CAUTION: CRASS AND CRUDE
Malevolent artwork terrorizes my baby and me! What's to be done?...
Wise advice from a funny looking centauress at a nude beach...
CAUTION: CRUDE NUDE
People SAY they like realistic characters they can identify with, but they don't ACT like it...
I'm warily crossing an avalanche chute in winter, when my worst fear happens. Then the slide speaks up...
I fall for a circus girl. Her brother is jealous, so all the dwarves show up with guns...
CAUTION: INCEST ISSUES
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 dreamed I saw what looked like an ink sketch by Dali of a horse--but I was dead wrong...
CAUTION: YUCK
A plague begins on terraformed Mars and spreads to Earth. Population biology made it inevitable...
CAUTION: OFFSTAGE POPULATION CRASH
I struggle to write down a bizarre dream clearly and simply, but both pens and paper have mutated. Then a child prodigy explains “dreams don’t always want to be linear”...
Are dreamworlds grim, on average? Do our dreams just express fears, or try to SOLVE our problems?
For about five years now I have been dreaming of this guy. Different dreams, same guy...
What are the psychological effects of growing up psychic, as others' thoughts and feelings invade you? When other's BODIES invade yours, it's molestation...
I lose myself, but I get some startling advice from a convent-school kid with empty eyes...
On a volcano's rim, watching the lava fountains, I interview a huge blue alien bird who never planned to be a monk...
A monstrous Kafka beetle grows gradually out of my face. And it's a MESSAGE...
Lanyi dreamed in detail of the assassination of his friend Archduke Franz Ferdinand hours before it happened...
I'm the First Lady. I have a dream that my husband's assassinated, and wake and try to warn him...
I meet William Blake! He says "The will is given us that we may know the delights of surrender." While in my bedroom...
A pod of whales in the sky and a circle of children dressed like seed-pods both beg me to interpret them...
My car's idling too fast. After hours of diagnosis, I notice a foot's on the gas! Only it's not MY foot...
A Scottish ghost leads us on a treasure hunt, but insists we stop to pick up small change. But it adds up...
It's nice hearing everyone praise my sex crimes, but I need to pull the dog from the golden horn...
CAUTION: SEX, LANGUAGE (OBVIOUSLY), GENERAL WEIRDNESS
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...
I live in an asylum for fragile psychics. When one man over-uses his talent, he compulsively eats glass...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
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...
Who's the demon? Mom, the Dragon, the Smiler, the Rubber Ax Murderer, the Doll Princess or the Tiger?...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Landing in Hawaii, I dream of a magical twilit cove I must swim across. The eve of leaving, there it is...
I'm a librarian in an English village hit by waves of new philosophies and lifestyles. And I learn what works:
Psychodrama seemed like a way to meet cool people. But when I dreamed they were ice-skating rioters...
Swayed by sinister surgeons, I go all Buddhist and give up my attachments, including various organs...
CAUTION: DIVESTABLE GENITALIA
I win a free game of Kick the President. But what if everyone can see your kick-ass Prez but you?
CAUTION: THIS DREAM IS MONITORED BY THE SECRET SERVICE
A psychic dream of my co-worker's secret desire gets tangled with the death of Truman Capote...
My shamanic teacher lures me into a labyrinth ruled by wizards whose magic-monopoly's about to fall...
I pray to the Love Goddess for help, but then realize there's a problem with my phrasing...
CAUTION: UNROMANTIC
Deep in the caves, a Voice announces I've gone as far as the human mind can stand. But ahead, I see...
Lifespans are growing, but do we incorporate that into our life-planning? Oh, hell, do I plan at ALL?
Honesty induces a joyful state with lucidlike powers. So I bike across the Lake of Time, open the book of my future, and see...
CAUTION: SEXY SKETCHES FROM THE FUTURE
I'm on the run, on the moon. Cyborgs toss bombs at me. Yikes! Is this what melted Mare Orientalis?
CAUTION: NUCLEAR IRRESPONSIBILITY
Parkinson dreamed his new telephone device got added to an anti-aircraft gun. He told his dream; guns with M9 units turned out to be so accurate it gave the British hope against the Luftwaffe...
An un-jealous wind lifts me above the San Francisco hills, so I can hunt for my love: the Muse...
My friend Mark does something I thought impossible: removes a snippet of my memory. Disastrous!
CAUTION: VIOLENCE... SORT OF
I meet a shapeshifting dream-mentor who warns of plague and war (note the date). Then a sentient book, "The Art of War," gets intimately involved...
CAUTION: ELECTRODES, LIBROPHILIA
I'm cold and dark and disoriented! What am I doing wrong? Nothing--I'm just halfway to Alpha Centauri...
I find a 3D program that shows your true self, the self that can love, IS love. And my wireframe is...
Everyone has a personal moon. At first, mine disappointed me, till a bard dumped his trash on it, and...
My own fear creates a field of time/speed distortion; can I use it against my attackers?
Before I was born, I set up this life to learn loneliness, boredom and fear. Good move, soul! No vacations?
I dream I don't love my girlfriend, I just confuse non-abusive treatment with love....
I'm Tarzan, fighting off attackers. But I kill one helpless prisoner! Am I going too far?
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
On New Year's Eve, I dream my college no longer welcomes me, and wake to find it's true...
I move hundreds of miles away to escape my family's psychic broadcasts. Pathetic, but... does it work?
I'm scared to show my dream-paintings to my art class. That night I find an large otter in my bed...
CAUTION: SEX
My uncle mocks the racehorse he rides! Smears lipstick on this stallion, calls him a wimp... Why?
I'm at the info desk in a futuristic library. But one question leads me into a DNA-helix, a tornado of doubt...
I'm authorized to play high-stakes poker with a scary-looking but rather nice demon...
I'm a Martian revolutionary, making the glaciers grow. The equator's still dry, but change is coming...
I'm pregnant with the Antichrist. This is going to ruin my vacation! Why do I think this is all about money?
The Pope spears our Inuit captain and the Mystic, who turns solitary--a prisoner of Zen. Can I free him?
Am I a punk dyke or a shy ballerina? Both! And they're complementary facets. Underwear never lies...
Night. A jungle full of prowling lions and leopards. So naturally, I get up on a rock and roar back...
I'm trapped in a post-apocalypse pulp story! Fun for my readers, but not for me! How to escape?
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...
A creature that's half kitten and half baby wants me to masturbate it... I'm reluctant, but when I do...
CAUTION: SEX
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
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...
A great teacher abruptly blanks out. Memory loss is scary, but in the empty moment, a deeper fear emerged:
A single dad loves his daughter, but is so pathologically cheap he's teaching her an unintended lesson...
CAUTION: CHILD NEGLECT
I dream I'm an otter, and wake into a dream about sculpture--and learn my style's due to my species...
I dream my watch is way off and I’ll be late. When I wake, I check my daughter’s watch. They agree. Can’t BOTH be wrong... can they?
The card confirming those silly fears are true. The nightmare is real. You're in trouble...
It's time to tackle that unpleasant task. But so what? You know how. And you have gloves...
I dreamed the Earth Goddess invited me to live with her. She was lonely to be seen for who she was...
I'm in Theremin's lab, around 1930, trying to play one of his experimental instruments. Why won't it work?
Dead fish in a poisoned stream, dead kittens in a pit... and advice from the woman who revives them with a touch.
All over the planet, hands have gone soft, pliable. I meet some animals evolving into people and advise them:
I finally find a way to safely indulge in heavy petting (as well as puns) with the cat...
Our landlady was a friend, but now breaks her word, ups our rent. Talk, compromise, or rent strike?
After a visit from our landlady's angry, crazy son, a pack of vicious dinosaurs invades our house...
In the castle of a wizard who's a were-worm, I let myself become my best friend's chair! Generous, huh?
Most writers search for their unique style. Not me--I struggle to convey unique EXPERIENCES...
I'm lecturing to a crowd: "Love's a win-win game, and abuse, lose-lose. But blame is zero-sum..."