A witch and I duel with blades carved of spiral horn. But we're both out to create an utterly truthful oracle. Isn't there a better way?
I dream an economist admits not only that eco-regs pay off, but that economic theory is faulty. Dream on!
Evolution is like baseball--a game of inches, efficiency, constraints. Surely we can do better....
CAUTION: CONTAINS THOUGHT
I go to an investment counselor who asks ME for advice! I lay out a plan, then wonder it'd work in nonfinancial affairs too...
The aliens offer us a Galactic Free Trade Agreement, but my friends and I think it's a disastrous deal...
CAUTION: MORAL AMBIGUITY
A lecturer tries to help the homeless founder of Hamm's Beer, robbed by bankers. But the talk may harm more than help...
A poor planet with one city. Urban technocrats and hick ecologists have conflicting development models...
CAUTION: TOO REAL TO BE FUN
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 at a lecture on Art, Beauty and the Nude, but no one paid the model and he wants a drink...
I tilted the Earth to created a tropical supercontinent from Bali to Tierra del Fuego. What will evolve there--and on the new tropical Antarctica?
When the school district goes bankrupt, students flee creditors into a hell-cave. But Joe Cool can skateboard on lava in the pit...
I have to kiss a mess of cats. Fishy, but I'm not chicken. My real beef is with the humans watching...
The rich block reform. So let's offer the rich what they really want: ranking and attention...
CAUTION: CHIMPONOMICS
I'm Emily Dickinson reborn in 2100 as a peaceful breeder of hydroponic lilies, till my dad drafts me as an Arctic energy-prospector, where I meet a ghost, a fiery Beast, a new me, and the girl of my dreams...
CAUTION: QUEER-POSITIVE, NUDE PROSPECTORS, GNOMIC DICKINSON QUOTES
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!
We hippies won, but now we're backward and isolated; it's time we joined the rest of our alternate Earth...
No work, no friends, no lover. People power-drill their own skulls. My uncle's going insane. And when I call 911...
CAUTION: BLEAK
I'm pregnant with the Antichrist. This is going to ruin my vacation! Why do I think this is all about money?
My dead friend lost patience with the local dump, so I beat the trash--and out came shining people...
Sharp seams between realities cross Silicon Valley; I end up in the Dark Castle of the Oracle. When I wake...
While watching two rooftop actors (one a chicken) I noticed the icebergs in the sky were melting at last...
I'm a Latina crossing the border at a nightmare bridge, while an Anglo harangues me on the Space Race...
Yesterday, Hitler marched into town. I was born before the Industrial Revolution, and am now about two hundred years old...
Is there really that much difference between the rootless yuppies flooding the West, and war refugees?
Our dilemma is, now that we have the power to get what we want... what exactly was it we wanted?
I'm lecturing to a crowd: "Love's a win-win game, and abuse, lose-lose. But blame is zero-sum..."
My mild yuppie friend Lou climbs a bank tower to reach his rich mentor, and wins an internship. But as he swears his oath...
CAUTION: DISSES CUTTHROAT CAPITALISM
I'm in an apartment co-op in Silicon Valley where people share their skills--till rush hour begins...