Flying in a wild wind, I mate mid-air with an alien, get pregnant, change sex, fight the inlaws...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
I'm a big cat lonely in this human city. Wish I had a mate! But as soon as I take responsibility for an orphaned boy, in walks an older girl...
I'm kissed by the Holy Aardvark, but my bond with my dad is strained by ESP he can't accept...
Alpine deer-hamsters, pigs, birds, children, even fundamentalists' daughters grow up and want to fly free...
My mother begged me to stay in. I went out with Bill--who raped me. Later she reluctantly told me what she'd dreamed...
CAUTION: DATE RAPE
I'm Bill Cosby's wife, finding it hard to cook for him without a stove or fridge...
CAUTION: SLANDER, I HOPE
Such pressures there are on the sick to act well! I implore you, ignore them all...
CAUTION: EXPLODING TEACHER
Mrs Griffiths has the same nightmare three times before she asks her nephew to skip a fishing trip...
A woman urged her friend to give her daughter a musical education. Without hearing this, the child went hunting for...
I dreamed my son, just a toddler, followed two small Boy Scouts down to the creek, where he drowned. That morning, on my curb, two...
I dreamt that at 4:35 AM the ornamental chandelier over our baby's bed fell and crushed the baby to death. I woke and...
I dreamed I sat high in a pine tree when my son stumbled through the woods, clearly lost. So I called...
Meanwhile my son, off at college, dreamed he was lost in a forest when he heard a voice above him call...
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’m an Asian kid in Pacifica, California. My parents annoy me, so I offer them for sale on Craigslist. A cop appears...
I dreamed I was camping by a creek. I went to get the soap and returned to find my baby son face-down in the water...
I lead my daughter up a thorny path, but she’s getting badly scratched. Shall I leave her in that fishing village? She wants to...
I dreamed our physician said our son had diphtheria. When I woke, we found a tiny white spot in his throat. But by the time the doctor arrived...
In a parallel world, a visionary's building the first plane only now. I'm his assistant. But I don't WANT...
I'm the daughter of a mortal doctor working in Faerie as it faces social upheaval (and I look for a decent date...)
In school, I'm seen as a freak--lied to, set up for little pranks. Not by my classmates--my teachers...
A series of family shadows, as I saw them then. These scenes are NOT literal, do I make myself clear? But these tensions were real...
CAUTION: GRIM! SEXUAL VIOLENCE, INCEST, MUTILATION
I dream my son the writer's living above our old family store, the one that failed in the Depression...
A watershed dream for me, since my relationship with my father was, shall I say, conflicted...
CAUTION: ABUSE ISSUES
A great director alternates hits and bombs, because in half his films he sets out to trouble his viewers. Here's one...
I'm one of four mediocrities: all our efforts come to nought. My mother says "You're netted, but you can fray the ropes...
The goddess of the Cult of Clutter catches a little thief, and tastes her to see if she’s worthy...
Advice of a specialist on the care and feeding of child prodigies, embarrassingly relevant for adult geniuses...
My parents pray for my success, and arrange a great learning opportunity for me. Really.
A girl and I climb a half-built tower to get some privacy. What can we do before my nosy parents find us?
CAUTION: SEX, HUMILIATION, FAMILY VALUES
A disowned heiress and I sneak onto the family estate, but they'll go pretty far to hide their skeletons...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
My one-year-old daughter and I hardly notice when a truck kills us. Unseen, I calmly observe the alarm of the living...
I’m an android struggling to raise a boy genius. But even human moms of prodigies share my problems!
I tour the heart of a red supergiant, where dreaming souls explore their heart's desires unconstrained by matter...
CAUTION: SWEDENBORGIAN VISON PLUS NUDE UNICORNS AND LEMURS
Jack was a parachutist on D-Day. His mom dreamt of the strafings, the ditch he hid in, the deaths of his comrades...
The children of some castaways refuse to go 'home': to them, this shore IS home. So what won't I leave?
My dad has a time machine, so he generously invites the King of Persia over. And offers him MY room...
My mom hires a therapist who really goes for my throat! Why is she so desperate to make me lose my...
CAUTION: OVER-THE-TOP CONFRONTATION
A bear-girl seduced by her coyote professor gets some advice on revenge from her anthropologist mom...
In a Mormon future, my baby climbs a tree and spontaneously disintegrates! I try repotting, but...
CAUTION: BAD PARENTING
Many kids have nightmares that their parents AREN'T their real parents. I dreamed my parents ATE my real parents...
CAUTION: HUNGRY MONSTERS
Slightly based on a print in our bathroom when I was growing up--Picasso or Mary Cassatt?
I was downtown when I knew I had to hurry home. It was full of gas. Our two-year-old had turned on all the stove jets as my husband napped...
Malaria nearly kills a talented young artist; he must retrain from scratch. Why? Well, he's not exactly himself...
A child of radicals goes wild in Rio. When we bail her out, we find she's had a strange enlightenment...
CAUTION: UNSAFE SEX
I'm on a beach in Mexico with a baby--my only souvenir of an affair I can't recall. I'm a mom? My whole life will change! Wait. Is this real, or...
I slept on an island in a scalding hot spring, praying for a dream. I got one--and woke up on the shore...
A brilliant, orphaned ottercub meets the last Tasmanian Wolf, who makes a hard choice I couldn't. Or did I?
Mom's gone, and our writer/bohemian dad's caring for us alone, now. He's barely coping. And he's me...
I pray for love and promptly meet Blue, whose mom treats her like a kid. We change that, but it's messy...
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 suspect we child prodigies and geniuses are as unlike the gifted as normal people. So here's a checklist...
CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED
Child prodigies may develop allergies due to immunosystem damage from too much testosterone in utero...
News of a child prodigy who was given the support I wasn't, triggers a flood of envy and bitterness...
I'm a kid in Nevada around 1950, learning that both my folks are lone wolves who gave me a genetic double dose... CAUTION: RACIAL THEORY ABOUT... LIBERTARIANS?
My family moves into a damp basement. My dad just sneers at the leaks. "I'll show you REAL leaking..."
After my dad lets me down I dream black may be white, and white, black--if you're a Sphinx...
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...
I dreamed a short story--even its title. Not that I read it. No, I lived it, through the eyes of a 5-year-old...
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 sea-captain, baby bottle in hand... The card of the warm man, the nurturer...
Dreams of my childhood--bootlegger dad, critical mom, gun-happy uncles, slaughtered squirrels, slaughtered Jews...
A gentleman clad but in a sheet notified me that an old friend had died of a terrible disease. What disease? Well...
It's Thanksgiving but my brother won't come in; he's digging up red earth. In our family he always digs up...
Hecuba dreams she gives birth, not to a child but a flaming torch! But she lets Paris live...
CAUTION: MORAL NO-WIN SITUATION
I dreamt of the Du Pont lab where I'd work, then the hospital where my sister-in-law would need a transfusion, then my of neighbor's coffin...
I'm on a wild trip to who knows where, with my young-again mom and my dead dad... and who's that other guy?
I'm on an alien world inside the minds of two women and a child struggling with moral choices in a civil war...
CAUTION: DEATH, LOSS
I dream my daughter's selling two unused guitars. They seemed symbolic until I told her the dream and learned...
Kingsford meets a girl who burns herself as a protest. K flips out! She rants “This is wrong!” when help is what’s needed...
CAUTION: RANT MIDWAY YOU'RE BETTER OFF SKIPPING
I dreamt my son Walter drowned in the creek by a certain tree. I woke in tears, and resolved to warn him...
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...