My hometown floods. I swim after some strange fish and find a scientific community where a scaled baby tells me who I am...
I'm a shy woman in a truckstop town who learns why I don't fit in. But will I, among my real kin?...
Another Army nightmare suddenly switched gears! My enemy kissed me, and we started doing every kind of sex...
CAUTION: GAYS IN THE ARMY? DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL!
I love a girl in a big Singapore clan whose matriarch hates me. But the omens say a confrontation will be disastrous...
My take on IQ, racism, Murray and Herrnstein's notorious book, and the theory of multiple intelligence. As an (ex)child prodigy it's not theoretical for me: broken hearts, broken trust, broken ribs...
CAUTION: LONG WORDS, RAMPANT ELITISM, GENIUS SHOPTALK
A dream-voyage round the world on the Black Current, only to wake up back in my animal village...
CAUTION: GORILLA MARRIAGE
A packet of magic soup mix transports me to the secret wizards' lab in our attic. They're trouble enough, but they've called up a demon they can't handle: the furious Black Unicorn...
Awkward newlyweds. Not a love match! Can they learn to work together to save a woman from the Nazis?...
Giving up a circle of friends is like the collapse of a sun--do you dry up like a raisin... or explode?
The world's first all-bulemic band, Veronica and the Vomits, provokes a riot at our local punk club. So I go to Anorexic Bootcamp and join an army of models learning self-defense under fire, as calories and fat jokes whiz by...
CAUTION: BARF, HORNY ANOREXIC, FOOD FIGHT
I join a circus, but soon all the best carnies sail off to the Blessed Isles. The circus animals pitch in and carry on--clumsy, lonely. Then a herald arrives from the Isles--Donald Duck! He says...
A cricket actress I know makes it into the Dynasty of the Gods! Or is it the TV soap "Dynasty"?...
The only man in the Miss America Japanese Tea Ceremony Swimsuit Pageant, I learn a tearful lesson...
CAUTION: DYSFUNCTIONAL FLIRTING
I find the feminist principle "the personal is political" leads to some alarming consequences for privacy...
CAUTION: POLITICS
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'm trying to prevent a race war, but can I kill someone I admire? And if so, can I live with it?
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, RACISM, GUILT
Normal people want someone complementary. Weirdos want someone like them. Why? Economics!...
The friends of a touchy aviator have to kidnap her just to give her a present... and WHAT a present...
Painting an abstract watercolor, I drifted into trance, and found myself climbing a thorny slope. Had I gone wrong?
Artists have their own strange culture, and we can unintentionally mislead therapists unfamiliar with us...
CAUTION: THERAPESE
I must see a community as a whole, and intuit my way out of a sealed room, and spot details, and join a trio in bed...
CAUTION: NUDITY IN LAST DREAM
I had a spectacular dream one night, that lasted many days in dream-time--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. I woke on deck deep in the night, my friends curled around me, and realized I didn't WANT to pass the test, be declared a grown 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...
If 2600K is too big to load, try it in parts: 1: HOME, 650K, 2: VOYAGE, 1200K, 3: BACK 750K.
CAUTION: NUDITY, SEX, QUEER TEEN ANGST, ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM
A watercolor portrait of Leaf and me on our boat in the lost city, from the dream FISHERGIRL...
CAUTION: TRIBAL NUDITY
My eighth grade class is a flock of birds migrating south for the winter, but we don’t migrate the easy way...
I'm an alien castaway, hiding my wings. But Earth feels like home now! If I could fly here, would I stay?
In my ballet class, we were learning to leap. But I wanted to FLY. So I went outside alone...
A baseball star breaks her leg (with a little help from the other team). It delays her career but but speeds her marriage. Did she NEED a....break?
I'm odd kid out in my wizard school till gargoyles raid us, and I puzzle out their tongue, to become...
I meet a wolf who invites me to join Dr Who's pack of sexy Ghost Wolves. There's just one catch...
CAUTION: FLIRTATIOUS WOLVES
I'm on a women's sports team, and I should be in paradise. But I want more; not love exactly, but...
Through vast Soviet ruins to the modest rooms where the new Russia lives. As I fall in love with my guide...
A biracial girl doubts her own heritage; a human friend has to confirm the obvious. So what am I blind to?
I get a scholarship to Shaman U. Some of my classmates are Terran, but I still don't fit in, because...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
Kat Hepburn burns inside as passionate aliens take over our souls. How can we expel them before...
A musical prodigy has a gorgeous, unplayable keyboard. But serious creativity takes a dull, regular, ergonomic instrument...
Whenever I run out of ballet class to Japanese without asking my classmate Wendy out, I change sex...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
I'm the token Chinese guy in a jazz band in backwoods Brazil, in the old colonial days, when...
I'm a psychopath in a prison for the insane. But I fall in love, and change. Blunt honesty fuels the change...
I find bargain homes in a hidden tract by the river. I think "My sister's house-hunting, call her!" She calls me. Guess what she's buying...
I'm a librarian in an English village hit by waves of new philosophies and lifestyles. And I learn what works:
After the revolution, I rule. But I get out of touch. So I throw a party and invite me, myself and I...
After the eco-crash, I try to join a tribe in the jungle that was Oakland. But they reject me, for good reason...
I join the Seattle Tribal Council, which of course means marrying them all. The guy I'm to sleep with on our collective wedding night SEEMED to like me, till he pulls that practical joke...
CAUTION: GROSS!
Psychodrama seemed like a way to meet cool people. But when I dreamed they were ice-skating rioters...
At the beach, my friends start a sleepy anonymous orgy... I'm single and frustrated, but is this what I want?
CAUTION: SEX
India wants a seat on the UN Security Council, but what of Pakistan? The UN has a modest proposal...
I find myself at a creepy party supporting a dead man who's running for office. And am I Dan Quayle?
CAUTION: HORROR BEYOND HORROR. YOU ARE DAN QUAYLE.
A prisoner's allowed to see his middle-class lover only in a seedy bar by the jail. But she likes the place...
CAUTION: THE JOYS OF SLUMMING
A sex dream warning "to find your soulmate, learn to spot the opposite: cute political and spiritual idiots..."
CAUTION: SEX AND POLITICS
One boring lonely day, I meet a cute teenage bunny who wants to play with me! But half an hour later…
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, INTERSPECIES FLIRTING, AND LOSS
The children of some castaways refuse to go 'home': to them, this shore IS home. So what won't I leave?
I'm a political aide to the leader of a hot-tempered, clawed, fanged alien people. And then my boss dies...
Alien abductions upset us--being studied, not greeted as people. But how do we treat animals? Do we create the gap we expect and then observe? That night, I dream one dog on a leash paralyzes a civilization...
My Aunt Squid advises me to join a lesbian artists' co-op. But I'm a man! Not for long, though...
CAUTION: NUDE SUNBATHING, GENDER BEWILDERMENT
When I wake up, animals rule the earth. How do they cope with specism? Well, it's complex...
A glowworm and nightwatch beetle help out a lost crying ant-woman. It's not always a bug-eat-bug world...
Singing a Lennon love song on a planet of giant women provokes first wonder, then disbelief. Why?
A vast sea-world with 7 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species...
CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION!
Phyllis Schlafly, who killed the Equal Rights Amendment, provokes a dream of being Captain Kirk trapped in a magic school with no way out but the graduate exam... Can I learn the lesson of the tree?
CAUTION: POLITICAL JOURNALISM BEFORE THE DREAM. OH NO!
The image got lost, but the words survived, so here's the poetic saga of an ant that left th' farm...
I’m a puma with a night job as a cellist. But my day job with The Architectives is the bizarre one...
I happily meditated alone in a monastery. But when I woke, I couldn't see how to act on the dream. Then a friend visited...
I'm John Muir reborn on Mars, supporting Mars First against tree-cutters, who poison their enemies...
I'm three women who marry a unicorn, a goat philosopher, and a magic cat. We start a commune, but the police quarantine us...
CAUTION: INTERSPECIES MARRIAGE, UNDERAGE SEX, FRAGMENTED DREAMER and BAD COPS
Mythic creatures round a woodland pool want to heal a businessman. Do too many cooks spoil the soup?
No Man is Island. So Men say. I am not a Man...
A wild flying dream lands me among feral children fighting to live in a glass conservatory of lost flowers...
I want to join the inner circle of America's political elite. But to do that I have to survive the Ordeal...
The artcops search-and-destroy our flying band, and my wings are shorn. But ten years later, songless, apathetic, I climb through my TV--and the women of Vietnam show me a new way to fly...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE, ATTITUDE, ALTITUDE
Monet is over 100 now, living in an art colony. I visit him, but my parents come along. Bad idea...
Alternate Earths, possible futures, and pure experiments in planetology, biology, sociology. Most of them teem with intelligent creatures--alien Edens!
CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, COMMIES, EVOLUTION
Emotionless Pod People surround the last free humans. I fight for humanity, but I'm not human or pod--I'm...
A bunch of primitives try to trick their way into the Federation, slipping around the Prime Directive...
I'm in the Magellanic Clouds, an ambassador to the energy-beings who rule them. Or am really their... pet?
I'm a telepathic rabbit defending our world from space-laser attack. We do, but do we modernize too much?
CAUTION: IDEAS
I'm an abused girl turning tricks to survive. But this is San Francisco: I join a prostitutes' co-op, and meet...
CAUTION: PROSTITUTES WITH SELF-RESPECT, OH NO!
At the beach, I meet some gregarious desert-world aliens who think loners are insane...
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
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
I love what dancers look like, seen over time, in strobe photos. Like weird undersea growths...
WARNING: NAKED CATS
I'm a circus tiger, then a performing shark. One day, I block my human partner's high dive... Why?
A dance classmate asks a bizarre question that haunts me. That night I dream I'm suicidal--nearly kill myself. Then I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern, from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but each time, the challenges get more spiritual. I wake up stunned. Then I learn what a shaman I know just dreamed--and now I'm unsure whose dream this is.
CAUTION: IDEAS
In a future where we gengineer ourselves instead of others, we no longer have to choose lesser evils...
I'm in an alternate-history American Revolution with Silky, a black mare. We sail for Europe as diplomats...
Business solved the problem of cheap foreign labor: slavery's legal again. So our firm buys cheap losers...
As a kid, my Ecotopian fantasy city was hollowed out of living rock, with hanging gardens and terraces...
I'm forced to become Time Pilgrim, warning history of the dangers of community--indeed, of unity...
Dusk. A plain. A troop of swordsmen approach me, draw their weapons... and toss their spinning, shining swords to the stars...
Tour a rugged, spectacular moon with air and water in deep canyons sheltering a dozen intelligent species
CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, SCIENCE
I'm a mortal time-tech, living in the Commune of the Gods, when I meet Little Red Riding Hood...
Clarence the sappy angel from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and Milton's Lucifer, noblest Devil of them all, land on Earth, offering treaties. Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're perfect, and the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures like me, and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full range of feelings. Too bad one is the feeling she's fake...
We were inseparable: the tiger, the fox, and the wolf. Together our magic lit up the darkness around us, until...
I'm half Anglo, half Kwakiutl. My uncle the shaman died, but he still wants to teach me his medicine...
An assassination plot using two planes triggers an invasion of our kingdom. I'd rather be playing Frisbee...
I’m a drug-addicted amateur dramatist. A fat balding businessman and I bring humanity back from extinction, but...
CAUTION: TORTURE (brief), ADVOCACY OF WAR, HUMAN EXTINCTION (offstage)
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A strange creature slunk into our yard, carrying a skunk lunch. But she dropped her fur coat, and...
Disguised as a literary troll, I spy on the Neo-Nazis, but it can't last: I ate a magic herb, and I'm growing...
After a day of nonstop art, I'm in rural China. Two women tell me their village declared them dead, killed by demons...
I'm lost in a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who adore unicorns but hate cyborgs, who think ants are cute, but dread unicorns! And while the Three Tribes love and hate, cave-monsters sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four vertices of my tetrahedral soul, but what if I get what I want? Peace, love... transformation? What if those aren't cute and New Age?
CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING
In our cult, we lie in vats of goo till we grow wings. But we're feared more than we knew...
CAUTION: A SPECIST LYNCH MOB, NAKED IN SCHOOL, LESBIAN FEELINGS, OBSCENE CARROT
We're air pirates running a music shop, till our biplanes are hijacked by cat angels! Furious, we set out...
I go half-mad and massacre a whole cult, till my gun manifests stigmata: a gory miracle. Then I'm one of the cult members, struggling to ignore the Voice of God pushing all us mortals to murder in His name.
I woke up haunted, and wondered for weeks what this was about... until the Waco Massacre.
CAUTION: CREEPY VIOLENCE, CREEPY GOD, CREEPY PREDICTION
Am I King Kong? No, it's a city of midgets! I leave and find I'm gay. Gay bugs come out of the closet, too, storming the fundamentalist flies of Heaven. And then Vor, the purple alien, does something peculiar...
CAUTION: LOOKS DOWN ON HOMOPHOBIC MIDGETS
I'm a biologist who finds an 'extinct' species in a slum. But the survivors speak: they tell me I'm one of them, just hypnotized to think I'm human... And when I wake, another kind of cultural hypnosis is exposed:
I'm an intelligent rabbit in an alphamale's harem, organizing a feminist movement...
After a peace march in San Francisco, I saw us as deer, and Americans as dogs. Yet WE frighten THEM...
In a camp, women wove mats. I was tempted to try. But it was months until I learned what they'd really been weaving..
On a world of designer genes, the Prime Minister tries to kill the Bug Princess by deluding an innocent lawn...
For flirting in the astral cafeteria, we all get sentenced to group therapy--till I catch the lie in my life...
A friend who's struggled with lymphoma invites me to sleep in a cave, but I worry I'll be bitten by a rattlesnake...
At age 90, the first female high-rise steelworker tells me why she did it--and why she regrets it...
A castle of witches in Europe. Persecuted for centuries, they're wary. Can I find a good witch to love?
CAUTION: PAGANS CRIPPLED BY SIEGE MENTALITY...
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
Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted?
A hermit spends his life wrestling with shadows. His only disciple becomes famous. Who was happier?
My cat dissolves in the shower. I follow her to a telepathic world. I want to stay, but can I?...
I'm in an apartment co-op in Silicon Valley where people share their skills--till rush hour begins...