I'm a schoolkid in the future who finds an ancient book the censors somehow missed...
My family has a hidden gene for incest--and griffins. When I bring the family skeleton from the closet...
CAUTION: MENTIONS RAPE, INCEST
In the cathedral, before the nation, I solemnly crown someone with my own detached head...
My neighborhood becomes a Huck Finn Eden after global warming turns it into a tropical island...
CAUTION: NUDITY, AMBITOPIA
In the future, books morph as they crawl round the web, till just the popular bits are left...
CAUTION: YOU TOO COULD BE CENSORED
While we're off at work, blind Ancestors come smash our homes--and we all take zombie vandal relatives for granted...
Spies kidnap a girl and move her soul into a madwoman's body. Can she survive? Recover? Even thrive?
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
At last my girlfriend and I manage to peel off the Brown Dress of Shame, and ...
CAUTION: SEXUAL HEALING
Can our interracial family survive? Not just cultural conflict, but our instincts clash around sex--and incest...
CAUTION: SEX, INCEST ISSUES, DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
I meet a tragic heroine--great heart, rotten luck. But I open her magic sword and find a bad chip...
I'm a crewman on a ship that's falling apart, and I do mean that literally...
What my home town will become, if you fools keep burning gas and spewing CO2 in the air...
I'm in the Mideast. No wonder it's a war zone--it's a vast pit BUILT for war! But a spiral stair leads slowly out, to...
I model with ten blonde clones. They want to be seen as individuals, so it's their last fashion show before they...
I sought a dream of Helpers. But rather than give me gifts, they gave me a daunting challenge...
One of the Time Vaults has opened. That means a historical crisis is at hand. Guess who gets to go in...
I'm an Asian kid in Pacifica, California. My parents annoy me, so I offer them for sale on Craigslist. A cop appears...
On the Euphrates, one crocodile eats all his kin, bloating monstrously. But when a winged ship appears, he feigns remorse...
I always wrote some letters strangely--my 'd' was nearly illegible. So I set out to retrain my deep motor skills...
I meet a nice werewolf in a hall of past-life junk, so sharp and rusty we dare not play...
Body after body is peeled away revealing truth inside truth...
CAUTION: GROTESQUE
Our Appalachian town revolts against fundamentalists, but brainwashing takes time to undo...
CAUTION: SEX AND INJUSTICE
I couldn't find Mrs. B and feared she was suicidal. Quite clearly and at once I heard my late mother say "She's in that hotel over there"...
I'm actress Nicole Kidman, clinging to the dome of City Hall like King Kong, ripping it to shreds! Why?
CAUTION: VANDALISM, REVERSE SEXISM, EXHIBITIONISM
A ghost complains Herdis's grandma has a bothersome aura. Herdis wakes, tells Grandma, and they dig up the floor to find...
A dragon's daughter seeking her inheritance defies a sneaky dragon-realtor out to own the world...
What Earth will look like 1000 years from now, with doubled CO2, flooded coasts and melted poles...
CAUTION: CALLS GEORGE W. BUSH A BIG FAT LIAR
I signed a prenatal agreement for weird, uneven luck to turn my life toward art and spirit. I want to broaden it, but I've lost the contract! So my spirit wife Silky sets out to find it...
Goaded by a green spirit of envy, an Ice Age sorceror kidnaps Adam's Eve, with alarming results for human evolution...
Money, power, race and gender don't stifle my friends who work as much as hierarchical structure...
I dream my son the writer's living above our old family store, the one that failed in the Depression...
I was a 30ish woman discovering that my chronic pelvic inflammation was from childhood molestation...
CAUTION: MOLESTATION IN DREAM-PAST
The Europeans have another great war, killing off their men. Will that break the cycle of violence? Like a...
My Cambodian village was burned, my family murdered. At 12, I was the oldest survivor; I led a band of kids toward the border...
My car's idling too fast. After hours of diagnosis, I notice a foot's on the gas! Only it's not MY foot...
I started life as twins, but slowly we fused. I still have four eyes, though. Then, one day...
The goddess of the Cult of Clutter catches a little thief, and tastes her to see if she's worthy...
A famous inventor is descended from foxes. Their faces teach me something about beauty and character...
After a trip to a failing mall, an old Grateful Dead song haunts my dreams. Mall and song are opposite political poles...
CAUTION: HIPPIE/JEFFERSONIAN DEISM
I live in a haunted house where ghosts push you to suicide. But they're as tired of it as I am...
My parents pray for my success, and arrange a great learning opportunity for me. Really.
After 25 years I land on my native island of Wyre, to touch an ancient clay figurine, who grows young and wakes...
I find myself sketching the slope of progress up to the coming singularity, and suddenly seeing a hidden stability...
A biracial girl doubts her own heritage; a human friend has to confirm the obvious. So what am I blind to?
I bear a Ring of Power meant to corrupt me. I cleansed it, at a cost, but can't wield it till I've read its spell...
I change sex to infiltrate a sinister castle, unaware its Lord can spot a shapeshifter--being one himself...
CAUTION: A DISTURBING BEDSIDE MANOR. I MEAN, MANNER.
I'm a misfit--a mortal in an immortal world. Then I meet a girl with an unpredictable illness...
James Hillman and my own experience suggest we enter life with an agenda. But what if our goals are sick?
I'm a hobbit woman in Los Angeles, hiding a magic weapon from Sauron. No, not THAT weapon...
The Goddess's harp, that calls in the seasons, just passed on. But the new harper has a shocking admission...
I fight to save 50,000 eggs that'll hatch psychics. But my friends want to exterminate them! Am I wrong?
As my grandmother is dying, I have a dream about what really went on in her house...
CAUTION: CHILD SLAVERY
A disowned heiress and I sneak onto the family estate, but they'll go pretty far to hide their skeletons...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
From Hawaii to Wyoming, I fight for beauty, always waking to find I'm someone new...
My relatives call me a blonde bimbo and won't give me my inheritance, so I take drastic steps...
CAUTION: MORAL HAIRSPLITTING
I was a sheltered girl till I entered my family's secret ancestral vault. I didn't expect to meet...
Soon after my husband's death, I dreamed he pointed at a small black bag I'd stored unopened. I found it held insurance policies...
I feel a drag, and take off my safety belt. I find I've been towing an invisible buggy with two men in it...
How Terri Garr the cat-woman finally escapes Anorexic Prison, and what happened to the baseball glove...
Mistress Abbot dreams if she eats a jackfish her child will be great. Next morning one swims into her waterbucket...
Soon after my friend and mentor James Merrill died, I had recurring, elusive dreams about him...
Among aliens, humans are jokes. Fragile and blind, we can't fly starships. Unless we build our own...
The dead treasure-hunter's will tells his heirs to meet in the wood. Chased by a knight in armor, we near-strangers unite...
I'm a dog princess, on a world where kibble falls from heaven. When I meet our species' guardian angels...
CAUTION: DOG NUDITY, LAWYERS
The children of some castaways refuse to go 'home': to them, this shore IS home. So what won't I leave?
The rich block reform. So let's offer the rich what they really want: ranking and attention...
CAUTION: CHIMPONOMICS
The life-loop. A woman bears a child who grows up to become herself, who bears a child who...
CAUTION: SKETCHY NUDITY
Creatures in the primal sea touch my third eye, dragons cry their eyes out, I fight the Sphinx, and arrive at last in...
A friend in Heaven promises Helen a lost ring would return to her. Three days later it did; but its path had been strange...
A mob of kids chases me chanting "Lyin' Wayan!" I get dizzy and fall off a bridge... THEN comes trouble!
CAUTION: FATAL FALL
A bear-girl seduced by her coyote professor gets some advice on revenge from her anthropologist mom...
Many kids have nightmares that their parents AREN'T their real parents. I dreamed my parents ATE my real parents...
CAUTION: HUNGRY MONSTERS
Everyone has a personal moon. At first, mine disappointed me, till a bard dumped his trash on it, and...
Nearly everyone in my family dreams of a mass murder as it happens nearby. But my dad's sure it's his own evil id, and my mom clams up, and my sister forgets. And me? I doubt the whole thing for ten years, until...
CAUTION: NIGHTMARE VIOLENCE
I was in my mother's closet, trying on her outfits, and trapped in Hamlet, too...
How exactly did I acquire a mother-in-law snooping on my phone calls, when I don't have a wife?
I'm at the beach, seeing it through English linguistic filters. Or do I? Is there a language under language?
At a family picnic, my sisters and I fish for scholarships and grants. They put down my art, my website...
My best friend and I qualify for new bodies. The new me is taller, but poor Ken may take years adjusting to his new...
I dream the new Dalai Lama's a kind woman who gives me startling health advice and shows me how to fly. The next day...
Festival night in a strange town, where, one night a year, dancing in the street transforms you into...
CAUTION: SEX TALK
I'm in San Francisco trying to throw Sauron's Ring into the Cracks of San Andreas. But a sexy sorcerer steals my sense of I! How can you act without a self?
Before I was born, I set up this life to learn loneliness, boredom and fear. Good move, soul! No vacations?
I move hundreds of miles away to escape my family's psychic broadcasts. Pathetic, but... does it work?
Malaria nearly kills a talented young artist; he must retrain from scratch. Why? Well, he's not exactly himself...
I want to join the inner circle of America's political elite. But to do that I have to survive the Ordeal...
Towers, before he was killed, argued Terman was wrong: geniuses are often isolated and maladjusted...
CAUTION: UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS
A vagabond king showed me the way into Faerie, and it made my fortune. But now it's time to pass the gift on...
I walk on Martinique with Captain Picard of the starship Enterprise. He's here to see a dreamy boy...
I dream of a half-pony half-human girl who can't eat either hamburgers or hay. She figures out an appropriate diet...
My body turns protean: big Popeye muscles pop out as needed, relaxing into stick-figureness...
Among the family portraits in the hall of my ancestors was this one of a formidable old... woman, I guess.
We sail to Heaven, but God exiles me to Fargo, North Dakota. But God's up to something subtle...
Child prodigies may develop allergies due to immunosystem damage from too much testosterone in utero...
My sister's avoiding our nosy parents, but I sense they'll run into her soon. I just didn't know HOW soon...
In our steamy future, after the cities drown, I'm hiking through Rainbow Tunnel, when I meet a holy man...
A man slowly walled in by neighbors till he died, is now a mad, murderous ghost. And he's me! Can I exorcise MYSELF?
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
The jewels in the hoard had strange powers, but the advice of the dragon guarding them was even stranger...
After seeing 150 years of family photos, I dream of being teased by time-traveling cheerleaders, and...
Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism, blind to how kindness matters...
CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED
I'm a robot in high school. I have my first dream, but I'm deaf to its message cuz it's not spectacular...
Carl Sagan on the radio mocks ESP and UFOs. So I dream of a flying pewter teapot, and wake to learn...
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
For years the Sea-Wolf enslaved me. He said I had to fight him and win to be free. I'm ready at last...
Reactionaries smash a paper. To rebuild, the editor must sell tiki carvings! But gods don't LIKE being sold...
CAUTION: MORAL QUANDARY
In our wizard-war, I've hidden my nature. At last I come out; but I can't tell the whole truth...
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...
Jung and a little brown man shoot down Siegfried the German Hero, riding his chariot of bones. Wait... his what?
My sisters play with dice. Miriel can influence them telekinetically, but she can't hold them: too young to have thumbs!
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
The future. Humanity's trapped--no energy. Because aliens looted our world before we evolved! Now...
My family moves into a damp basement. My dad just sneers at the leaks. "I'll show you REAL leaking..."
While I study how humans went extinct, my daughter happily splashes in the sea...
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
On a poster of a model who's around my weight, someone's scrawled STARVATION IMAGERY...
CAUTION: DEFENSE OF SKINNY PEOPLE
He said "Oh, Mom, I had a terrible dream. A car ran me down." I said we could not live by dreams or we live a life of horror...
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'm Doctor Who, being chased by an air-surfer who demands we give up a reserved, proud man named...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
I pull my mom's sweater onto my legs but get tangled (and bits of anatomy dangle). Worse, I'm emulating Jesus...
CAUTION: WARDROBE DYSFUNCTION. IN FACT, GENERAL MASCULINITY DYSFUNCTION.
A toxic site in Silicon Valley isn't a chemical spill, but angry ghosts, killed in a camp and forgotten...
CAUTION: THE CAMP TURNS OUT TO BE REAL
Dreams of my childhood--bootlegger dad, critical mom, gun-happy uncles, slaughtered squirrels, slaughtered Jews...
Dead fish in a poisoned stream, dead kittens in a pit... and advice from the woman who revives them with a touch.
A woman in Tibet disassembles herself! A local god hires her spirit, but she uses the office equipment...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
In a city crawling across a marshy world, I find a detonating bomb frozen in a time-ball. Why do they bear this risk?
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...
A trail toward Freedom has extra markers, for it's three trails, superimposed! Not all the cues are for us...
Silicon Valley goes enthusiastically fascist. I hide in a berry patch. They build a shining world, and then...
I'm half Anglo, half Kwakiutl. My uncle the shaman died, but he still wants to teach me his medicine...
I'm climbing a tower, as my dad, Apollo, drunk, throws bottles at me from the top, breaking bones...
CAUTION: DENIAL ABOUT ALCOHOLISM
I dream my daughter's selling two unused guitars. They seemed symbolic until I told her the dream and learned...
A glamorous heiress casts a spell that spills over, so I can have anyone I see! But who DO I see?...
My family home's invaded by ancient Egyptian architects. So I put on my unicorn mask and eavesdrop on their plans...
I ask to see my past lives, and dream of a viewpoint where I can--but this Mormon ranger...
A job as the only priest on an island colony sounded perfect, only I'm the wrong religion...
CAUTION: DOGMATISTS AND DEAD BIRDS TALKING
A road trip through New Mexico mutates into a tour of my relationship disasters...
My father-in-law looked me in the eye and said, 'Florence, the Lord is my shepherd and we go in peace'...
I find the well of women's wisdom. Lucky I had a sex change! A girl sneers "this wisdom's narrow." Is it?
I cut off my own head! But I grew a new one. Only... what do I do now with my old head? It's starting to rot...
CAUTION: SELF-DISMEMBERMENT
My grandmother dreamt a white-faced black mare trampled me in our orchard. We had no such mare. 29 years later, I boarded a man's two mares...
A woman in our dreamgroup had a baffling dream of being fired by a Mr Bleeden, but it made shocking sense to me. My dad...
We're exploring the English farm we inherited, when The Wild Hunt storms over the hill...
I was bodiless but trapped. All I could see were these moving wires. Whenever a knot drifted by...
CAUTION: MADNESS, TORMENT, TELEPATHY, SEXUAL REBELLION
Nancy Friday describes a certain kind of guy disturbingly like me, and I realize chronic illness has made me...
A mystic postman delivers a letter on the world's best glasses and a reply in my own hand, telling how to find and clean them...