I fall in love, defying dwarf-tossers and Toulouse-Lautrec, till I become a time-traveling bunny...
CAUTION: SEX, SIZE DISCRIMINATION AND SLANDER
The wife of Admiral Richard Deane dreamt how he died two days before the news arrived...
A bizarre little dream proving just how physical the impact of a dream is on the body...
Sex-and-violence is one word in America, because our ratings system TEACHES us to link them...
CAUTION: THE F-WORD AND SENSIBLE IDEAS
A dream of mushrooms, flying, canyons, giant Rocs out of Sindbad--and a moral challenge.
I walk into a bar in ancient Greece and this woman's guardian angel acts racist. OK, I'm an ogre. So?
CAUTION: ANOTHER HANDGUN TRAGEDY
I'm a hobbit in Silicon Valley, stalking Ring-wraiths down El Camino. But one of them's stalking me...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, MADNESS?
The government has a harsh policy on armed dissidents. Not the kind of arms you think...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I'm a Puertorriqueña girl. I fall for an Anglo doctor, but he's not what he seems...
CAUTION: UNDERAGE SEX, CREEPY GUY, VICIOUS FIGHT
She dreamt Death attacked her but her youngest daughters bravely fought back--and died. Three months later...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Allied submarines attack the giant Nazi toddler who's hunting us with sonar, occupying my playroom...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND GUILT
A second me punches me in the breast. I fight back, yelling "Bad Nancy! Bad Nancy!" Five months later I find a malignancy...
Giant snakes chased me, but I went lucid, turned and slew one. As I woke, the snakes were crying. So I re-entered the dream and...
CAUTION: SNAKES, BEHEADING, REHEADING
The Prime Minister of England breaks my nose, so I become a flock of squirrels to seek revenge. Should I let go?
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
I'm a dance teacher, I'm King Kong, I'm a shell-shocked elf, I'm a wild bird flying...
CAUTION: GAY-POSITIVE ROLE MODELS, OH NO!
My family has a hidden gene for incest--and griffins. When I bring the family skeleton from the closet...
CAUTION: MENTIONS RAPE, INCEST
My kidnappers were desperate: no jobs. I fled them down the berry chute, to the underground strawberry factory where engineers in go-go boots did the berry dance. And the berries...
CAUTION: STRAWBERRY FETISH
Should Anna quit hiding her psychic dreams? She dreams a cat eats her bird, and burglars loot an unprotected house. Maybe not...
A bizarre marathon, and the Princess is the prize. But she doesn't WANT to be, so she sets out...
CAUTION: BLOODY BIRD
We unearthed a sacred treasure, but now a mob of believers are out to lynch us! I better fly...
CAUTION: SACRILEGE AND BAD PUNS
My crazy friend Wayne goes bowling for busses with a black egg. Wait! Crazy? Or... predictive?
CAUTION: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE BEHAVES DISGRACEFULLY
A tree-girl moves to Hollywood to make film deals, but jealousy stabs her...
CAUTION: BLOODY ASSAULT, GAY DRYADS, MUTANT NUDITY
Quiet Blondie seemed sane enough, especially compared to her driven, talkative friend Crazy, until...
CAUTION: NUDITY, A LITTLE BLOOD
A visit to a world where they fear blue soup ends in death and resurrection, so I'm pissed at my boss--God.
CAUTION: DEATH, REBIRTH, SACRILEGE, JOB BURNOUT
Spies kidnap a girl and move her soul into a madwoman's body. Can she survive? Recover? Even thrive?
I'm James Bond, fighting a plot by the fiendish Eight. But I'm captured and questioned. Of course I lie to the enemy: the senators of the Committee on Intelligence Activities. Till I see myself through their eyes...
CAUTION: SPY SEX, SPY MENTALITY
My evil twin, Boris Badenov, wants $8000 or else. I ask my dreams for a solution, and get one...
Flu. Ow, cramps! But that night I dream of a miner's rebellion against our fat-cat boss. Which side am I on?
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
Two beasts eternally fight, the proud bright peacock-tailed beast and the sad-eyed, ever-defeated sheepdog of...
An dreams a scary woman pulls his guts out and fills him up with brush! He wakes, gets gutted in a feud, and then...
CAUTION: BLOODY VIKINGS!
I was at the beach with my friends. It was fun. But gradually they were laughing at me, not with me. Then they picked up burning sticks...
CAUTION: GRUESOME
Our gods demand sacrifices. I let Mother mutilate me so I'd be unfit. But the priests turn out to be blind...
CAUTION: YOU CAN FEEL PAIN IN DREAMS
The night before Julius Caesar's assassination, his wife dreamed of his death and tried to warn him, but politics...
G.K. Chesterton was a leopard, and he ambushed George Bernard Shaw... Oh, the blood! Why didn't I intervene?
At a beach, a mob of kids stage an intricate practical joke full of coordinated “accidents.” How many of the jokers knew the end was death?
CAUTION: MALICE
I tour a middle school paralyzed by delinquents, and learn this is normal now...
A woman's stalked by a clay monster that eats heads. But it has a proposition for both of us...
CAUTION: CANNIBAL MONSTER
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...
A mad gunman breaks in and shoots at me, but I start him talking, and learn what's eating him...
God flames me for putting pagan stuff on the Net, and we end up suing each other. Then the riots begin...
CAUTION: HITMEN AND HERESY
I'm Coyote, keeping the Business Prophet from taking over Dante's Peak. But it turns too personal...
CAUTION: IDIOTIC VIOLENCE
I did what I love. The money didn't follow. So now I have to guard a crimeboss at a theft convention...
CAUTION: INEVITABLE CHEKHOVIAN SHOOTOUT
My friend's mom is a witch-smeller, who judges apprentice shamans. But when a boy dreams he's a crocodile, watch out!
On the Euphrates, one crocodile eats all his kin, bloating monstrously. But when a winged ship appears, he feigns remorse...
To prove I really am lucid-dreaming, I let a streetcar run me over. Mm, crunchy! Then I find out...
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS AT OM...
Gunsel kills my friend Crystal in a flaming aircar crash. But that's not enough--he comes back, and...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
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
Deanna Troy and I meet an alarming man atop a Mayan pyramid. Who will be the sacrifice?...
Our Appalachian town revolts against fundamentalists, but brainwashing takes time to undo...
CAUTION: SEX AND INJUSTICE
A serial killer stalks our office, and our bosses deny it. When we defend ourselves, things turn weird...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Round the ring of twelve worlds and their twelve gods, seeking one god who's giving me grief...
Dr Who kills his best friend, a huge white tern, on a whim. Furious, I demand a rewrite...
CAUTION: WANTON MURDER
Dr Who, that BBC perennial, allies with Death. An alarming turn-around! What's he up to?
CAUTION: NICE ALIEN GOES BAD?
I dreamt I dreamt a friend poisoned me. I "woke" and slew him in fury. But guilt gnawed me. I confessed and was due to hang...
CAUTION: NOT A CALM GUY
My hunting license won’t let me legally shoot a giraffe or ibex, but I do bag a prime Macy’s salesman...
CAUTION: LICENSE TO KILL
An eagle slaughtered my twenty geese. I wept until he spoke to me: "Take heart! These are thy suitors; I am thy husband..."
Before his daughter's even born, Thorstein dreams two eagles in love with a swan kill one another in rivalry over her...
CAUTION: PATRIARCHAL BARBARIANS
Ebon Ebon Thalud, a woman blended with darkness, tries to gouge out my right eye. I wake screaming. My right eyelid is swollen...
Egyptian archeologists dig up a living god. He sees us as dolls to play with, but we've grown up...
CAUTION: GOD AS A RAPIST
I'm the Incredible Hulk, forced to do emergency brain surgery. And the patient's burning from within...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE AND UNLICENSED MEDICINE
A staring Eye tries to break me, though his birds rebel in sympathy. But the cats and robots flay me. Yet I refuse to die...
A fairy woman and a mortal man? Can't work! They're flighty, we're crude. Doomed, right? Well, some people are so sure of it they decide to help things along a bit. Or a lot...
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 was a 30ish woman discovering that my chronic pelvic inflammation was from childhood molestation...
CAUTION: MOLESTATION IN DREAM-PAST
A great director alternates hits and bombs, because in half his films he sets out to trouble his viewers. Here's one...
Lanyi dreamed in detail of the assassination of his friend Archduke Franz Ferdinand hours before it happened...
As I write a sad sex dream, a madman curls up fetally in the road outside my window. I'm slow to call 9-1-1, and...
While my body expels a kidney stone, weird scenes happen on the astral plane. At least I get to dip the pope.
CAUTION: PAIN, PEE, POPE
Coming down with a virus, I dream of a guy who INSISTS we must fight, it's just so FUN...
My Cambodian village was burned, my family murdered. At 12, I was the oldest survivor; I led a band of kids toward the border...
I'm a woman living in a space habitat. A new Napoleon invades us, and damages our life-support...
Tibet, 1910. A cult whose ancestors manned a radar station that shot down UFOs. But were they really hostile?
I spoke a proverb I'd never heard of when I woke. So I Googled it, and found it had meaning--dark meaning...
CAUTION: TURKISH JINGOISTS WILL NOT LIKE THIS DREAM
To fight the drug trade, cute little blonde cops plant packets on men in the park. And when I resist...
CAUTION: BAD COPS
A child from another universe materializes--part way. Too bad we called in that expert from Stanford...
Gisli had two spirit-wives who told him in dreams how to evade the bounty-hunters after him... for 13 years!
I'm detective Travis McGee's lover, so I know I'm doomed. My solution is drastic...
CAUTION: HARD-BOILED HANDGUNS
I'm a girl in a desert who God tells to preach a new gospel. But the locals, unlike ancient Rome, have guns...
CAUTION: VIOLENT MARTYRDOM AND A KID WHO DOESN'T KNOW WHEN TO QUIT
The girl I love has a family that'll stop at absolutely nothing to destroy us. But I'll fight for love...
CAUTION: SEX; EMOTIONAL VIOLENCE; MOLESTATION HISTORY
Two days before 9/11, I dream I'm a child at ground zero, mourning the devastation--and witnessing rebirth.
You know angels feud over regional underfunding of Divine Grace. But you don't know how low they'll go...
My part in the revolution in Guinea-Bissau: substantial, but not exactly planned. I just wanted out...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Who's the demon? Mom, the Dragon, the Smiler, the Rubber Ax Murderer, the Doll Princess or the Tiger?...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I'm an organic almond grower who's solved the Luminous Snail problem. But my neighbor has an agenda...
A Buddhist scroll shows me Hell Cafe, where diners become entrees. But I read the scroll backwards! You can escape Hell just by walking out, against the traffic flow...
CAUTION: CANNIBAL SOULS
A woman says she's being stalked, but it's her own poltergeist! Her therapist makes her reach for it...
James Hillman and my own experience suggest we enter life with an agenda. But what if our goals are sick?
I'm a sniper in a desert battle of men against hobbits. Guilty for not fighting openly, but that'd be suicidal...
CAUTION: MATH AND WAR
A disowned heiress and I sneak onto the family estate, but they'll go pretty far to hide their skeletons...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I'm an orphan shot at by hunters. They shoot my sister! But no one believes me...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I live as a small falcon, glad I'm no longer human. But when that life ends...
My first memory is of being a wild horse and waking up to find I was suddenly a human child...
I must rescue Ann Soforth from righteous rapists, then Paul McCartney from a musical curse...
CAUTION: ABUSED CHILD, JOYCEAN LANGUAGE
I flee our love triangle when Abe turns mean. He's telepathic, but I have a plan: the goldfish, the snakepit, the caves...
CAUTION: THREESOME, SNAKES, MOTORCYCLE FATALITY
Psychodrama seemed like a way to meet cool people. But when I dreamed they were ice-skating rioters...
I was teaching a class on democracy in Africa when Idi Amin walked in. The crowd turned violent, but then...
To reach the Peak of Happiness on the Isle of Dreams, I must pass four Perils--but they're all backwards...
CAUTION: RELIGIOUS NUTS, KNIVES, NUDE ALIENS, BACKWARD PLOT...
On Mars, a child-sacrificing cult of miners wants to kill me, but something strange happens....
Sargon, a delivery man, dreams the Goddess drowns the King in a river of blood. He wakes and tells the King...
A Himalayan peak boils with warring creatures, but a guru says "They're just your conflicts. Sit, watch..."
When warring Greek isles kill a peacemaker, her three best friends start a vendetta! But she wanted peace...
CAUTION: HATE NURSED TOO LONG
Three dream-reactions to a (real) psychic experiment that went badly awry...
I get back from vacation to find the landlady's installed her daughter in our shared house...
Lucid, I summon a sexy literary character. But he tries to take over my personality and make it his lucid dream...
Half elvish, rejected, I wander the worlds, and find a limbo built by Zeus--but do the inmates deserve it?
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
I'm a blonde gameshow bimbo. Each week, I'm beaten up. Ha ha ha! But my bruises are real. At last, I...
CAUTION: GAMESHOW FROM HELL
A courtroom hostage-drama where I'm forced to commit... tracheotomy! And then the Gulf War begins...
CAUTION: CARTOON VIOLENCE
I find myself in a vault with tables where half-dissected animals writhe. Hidden in each was a human shape...
CAUTION: GRUESOME
I'm on Mars. The terraforming is going well. Then saboteurs set off a laserbomb in the street near me...
CAUTION: TERRORISM
My housemate Lily is a lion. She bursts into my room. Stare-down. And then she pounces. So I...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE! MUTUAL GLARING! THE VULCAN NERVE PINCH!
Lincoln dreamed his body was lying in state in the White House. A guard said he'd been assassinated. Two weeks later, he was...
I'm a traveling Zen warrior talking to a circus girl in a barn. Four guys enter--and my life changes forever.
Creatures in the primal sea touch my third eye, dragons cry their eyes out, I fight the Sphinx, and arrive at last in...
My lover's face is shadowed and we are never alone together. Things slip from film-noir to open nightmare when...
CAUTION: SEX, DEATH, GUILT
A nightmare. I go lucid as the bullets tear through me. Yet I go on with the dream! Why?...
CAUTION: NIGHTMARISH VIOLENCE
I'm on the run, on the moon. Cyborgs toss bombs at me. Yikes! Is this what melted Mare Orientalis?
CAUTION: NUCLEAR IRRESPONSIBILITY
My dentist (a Haitian Mafia leader) sends a message to my dad (also a Mafia don) by dental cruelty....
Always ask permission to throw rocks at your date. No, not those big ones! Where's the nearest hospital?
CAUTION: SURREAL DATE ABUSE
Beauty's link to status and privilege bothers me. The pretty get perks (or parks), while we uglies...
CAUTION: BREASTS, BEASTS, AND A BLOOD FLOWER
I'm just an ordinary guy, who beats his son so he'll grow faster, and sees tits on drinking fountains...
My dreams were troubled by war. So I painted them in concentric rings--lotus, fire, children, animals, and nightmares...
I'm cartoonist Marjane Satrapi. I passively tag along with friends (and a fiancé I tend to forget) in the Mission District of San Francisco. But they blunder into real trouble...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
On Old Mars, before it died, two rival families' teasing finally goes too far, despite the whale's warning...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Two medieval women poison one another. One dies in my arms; the other may just survive. Who are they, and must they die?
CAUTION: MURDERERS
My friend Mark does something I thought impossible: removes a snippet of my memory. Disastrous!
CAUTION: VIOLENCE... SORT OF
I'm in a tribe of post-Crash kids with psychic powers, trying to keep nukes from rising again...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE TOWARD CHILDREN
I'm in what seems to be a village of very conservative Muslims. But they're really alien castaways...
A man goes in for minor surgery and wakes up changed. I feel creepy, but for all the wrong reasons...
God offers gifts to pilgrims, so my sister enters his door. Fierce light shoots out...
I'm a ghost dwarf in love with a Lady trapped in a magic Arabian castle. But our love is being used...
CAUTION: SEX, BETRAYAL, SACRILEGE
Many kids have nightmares that their parents AREN'T their real parents. I dreamed my parents ATE my real parents...
CAUTION: HUNGRY MONSTERS
My mom confesses to a killing, says tearfully she had to do it--but her reasons make no sense. When I wake..
A creepy visit to the Leather Nuns: as fierce as Beorn in The Hobbit, but less hospitable...
I'm John Muir reborn on Mars, supporting Mars First against tree-cutters, who poison their enemies...
A horror film and Rick Veitch's dream-comix provoke a nightmare warning me that guilt about my dad is wrecking my life...
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 dream I live in Hayward, California. One day my family's murdered. A few years later I find that dream-street is real...
We stood meekly in line to be beheaded. I tried to accept my fate and commended myself to God... CAUTION: READ THE TITLE!
I step between an ultra-femme girl and a butch boy, trapped in a psychodrama. But I'm bleeding...
Natalius dreamed that angels whipped him for joining a heretic cult, and woke to find welts on his back...
Someone said "There's been a murder in the Victoria Hotel, and the murderer slept in your house." Three weeks later...
My mom and I road-duel an alien beetle, then investigate a deepspace Marie Celeste; then I spy for the Angevin Empire to protect the Crown Jewels...
I'm Tarzan, fighting off attackers. But I kill one helpless prisoner! Am I going too far?
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
I was wrong. I didn't survive three assassins. It's been seven! Why'd I forget the others?
J. Edgar Hoover, founder of the FBI, stages a coup. Do we accept him as dictator, or nuke Washington?
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
On a dead-end street, I meet a beautiful psychic and fight a tentacled monster that's stalked me for years...
I meet my true love during a coup. We go through Hell together, like Orpheus and Eurydice--only we...
Three men torture my friend (or is he ME?) and try to keep me from intervening...
CAUTION: FAST-TALKING BULLIES
Thrice I saw the Chancellor of the Exchequer shot in the House of Commons. I nearly went to London to warn him, but...
A hog is tied so it bounces in a fountain, and at the bottom of each bounce, a fork jabs it! How to free the pig yoyo?
CAUTION: OW!
An itchy patient of mine insists he's turning into a four-headed man-eating plesiosaur. He left one thing out...
Poison takes many forms, from attitudes to environmental by-products to actions done deliberately...
Three big tap-dancing kidnappers is too many to fight. So I try admiring their kidnapping technique...
The Pope spears our Inuit captain and the Mystic, who turns solitary--a prisoner of Zen. Can I free him?
One by one, we're pulled under the water, the earth... eaten. That's the fate of all flesh. And we're flesh.
CAUTION: HORROR
A detective talks all his suspects into suicide. But they still bury me in wood pulp and beat me to death...
CAUTION: BAD POLICE PROCEDURE
I'm working alone in the lab at night, when the lab gear wakes up and tries to kill me...
Women rain out of the sky. People shrug "Suicides." I don't believe it--and what if one falls on me?
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Millay dreams her lover’s attacked in the street, and wakes to realize it’s already happened; he’s lost.
Bob is at the window asking to be let into my house. He is dressed as Santa Claus; in fact, I think he is...
CAUTION: MURDER ATTEMPT
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
Ann Marten kept dreaming that her stepdaughter had not eloped but was buried under a nearby red barn...
CAUTION: MURDER
I'm in my home town, but at two times at once! Murderous boys explain why: I died here in 1861...
Calmly, I watch a girl trapped in a lab try to escape, and die; and watch a man lose his head to a hungry thing...
CAUTION: GRUESOME
Night. A mirror-maze of contradictory preachings. But in the secret mermaid pool, I find love.
Then... sphinx-angels war in the air! A war of riddles. Can I, a batwinged devil, make peace?
CAUTION: SEX, NUDITY, MEAN ANGELS, AND ONE HAPPY DEVIL
I was in the grave. Worse, a living skeleton was trying to crush my ribs. Though terrified, I fought back, and...
A rich serial killer in a sports car flaunts his virtual immunity, till I go after him in a light plane...
Jeffers, that harsh, visionary, ecological poet, seems drunk on Darwinism, blind to how kindness matters...
CAUTION: BRAIN REQUIRED
My dead friend lost patience with the local dump, so I beat the trash--and out came shining people...
The feud between our magical families is getting ugly. Hawk-Head's dad throws boiling water on me, so I...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Aliens, hypnotherapy, dancing molars, riots, witches, flying pianos, lettuce... yet there is a point.
A crazy security guard with a deadly squirt gun kills freely over and over, for the cops keep paroling...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
My sister and I are runaways, developing psychic powers. A cult of fish-selling witches wants to use us...
CAUTION: SIBLING INCEST, SPELL ABUSE
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...
My childhood home explodes into a vast pyroclastic cloud that comes boiling toward me, miles away...
CAUTION: DOOM
I distract a mad gunner in a crowd--I suspect I'm dreaming, but still... This may be noble, but is it healthy?
CAUTION: DON'T TRY THIS ON THE NEXT CRAZED KILLER YOU MEET
Jung and a little brown man shoot down Siegfried the German Hero, riding his chariot of bones. Wait... his what?
My sister's beautiful; I'm plain. When she's murdered, I ride into the Interface Desert, where worlds meet...
Two snakes fight as centipedes emerge from under rocks. I tell my best friend. Next day her co-worker tells her the same dream...
In a desert crawling with aliens who can absorb your mind, I propose a truce, and gain...
I love Splinter, but her mom insists I got BOTH of them pregnant. Then I notice I'm pregnant too...
CAUTION: SEX, NAGGING
Giant squid start surfacing at popular beaches and eating people. Not the form of first contact we'd hoped...
CAUTION: YOU ARE LUNCH
I defeat the knife-wielder, in spite the blade in my belly I can't pull out. I may have to let it be...
Greenwood was repeatedly haunted by her murdered neighbor's ghost. His detailed tips helped her catch his three killers...
I kill with an angry wish! I hide the bodies, but secretly pray someone'll catch me before I snipe again...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE, GUILT
I careen from a shamanic laboratory to a shattered ring round an alien world to (gasp) an honest politican...
When I flee the Psychodrama Circus to avoid being stabbed, it explodes! But it's the sushi that really upsets me...
CAUTION: CANNIBAL MAKI
A dragon killed a friend, and threatened worse. I had to fight. We dueled mid-air, over Lake Tahoe...
The card of force not always used wrongly. The Knight says, "Sometimes ya gotta bust a few heads..."
I get speared by Irish warriors, slipped an LSD dose, chased by giant spiders, torpedoed--but hey, I'm not bored!
The Conference on Love has two sexy speakers. One says "my teacher's stalking me" but she clings to him. Love? Hate? Both?
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM--but what are these two exhibiting?
While living with violent Kay, I dream I meet a nice moth-girl. But we must undergo ten trials. Mustn't we?
CAUTION: RELATIONSHIP TROUBLES, BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT
Gunmen held me hostage in a grand hall; at last they shot me. Next day came news of the Moscow Theater hostage crisis...
Visiting Time City, I witness the "suicide" of a woman named Thieu but suspect it was really assassination...
CAUTION: SUICIDE? MURDER?
Two gunmen break in, call me by a strange name, and demand I repay a loan I never borrowed...
I was shown what veils the God in us: Blood (violence), Idols (dogmatism), and the Curse of Eve (sexism)...
CAUTION: FUNDAMENTALISTS (OF ANY FAITH) WILL SEE RED
In 1985 I was flooded with nightmares about heads and necks. They had an unparalleled intensity...
I read of a young healer in rural Indonesia harassed by the local mullah. I dream she leads a revolution on a starship...
I'm a tiger from Planet Cat, visiting Earth to run in San Francisco's "Bay to Breakers" race. I knew racial tensions were high, but why is William S. Burroughs out to kill me? Oh. Because...
Wandering through time, I forget how much other cultures fear witches. I think I provoke a shooting!...
I loyally served a demon who punished me until at last he sent me to hell. And STILL I didn't rebel...
CAUTION: BLOODY ABUSE
I dreamed that nouveau-riche half-ton polar bears invaded San Francisco, evicting us locals...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE COMING TO YOUR TOWN SOON
A traveling torturer chooses me for his victim. He has the right. I bluster, but when at last I have to sleep...
CAUTION: NO PAIN, BUT GORE
Tuba Man plays from the top of a tower, even when Loveless Man opens fire; for music is life to him...
Yesterday, Hitler marched into town. I was born before the Industrial Revolution, and am now about two hundred years old...
In our plot to kill the Tyrant, we used his wife. Or... did she use us? She goes mad, but--she's HAPPY...
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)
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
Trapped in a blend of Joan of Arcadia and The Tempest Tales, I'm tired of being the pratfall sidekick...
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
It’s election time in Europe, but the voters have gone crazy. Nazis invade England. In my library, Sarah Palin rots...
CAUTION: POLITICS GONE WACKY
I make a weird vow--while I absent-mindedly slice up other people's cars! The next day...
CAUTION: DREAM VANDALISM
I'm lucid but paralyzed. A weird child spies on me; is she controlling me? Then I'm having sex--but if I come, I'll wake up! Then some thugs jump me. I make sure they won't bother me again, but... is everyone in this dream out to distract me?
CAUTION: SEX, MUGGER-STOMPING
I was bodiless but trapped. All I could see were these moving wires. Whenever a knot drifted by...
CAUTION: MADNESS, TORMENT, TELEPATHY, SEXUAL REBELLION
I slay the beautiful dragon attacking us, despite my regret. And then, as I sleep, glowing eyes advance on our keep AGAIN...
Thordhr dreams a pack of wolves attack him in a trade-booth! He wakes sure the trade-fair will be trouble...
I'm being stalked by Ricardo Montalban, playing Khan, from Star Trek. Why him, why me? I know why.
I'm at a family dinner. Killer Grampa, kid-hating Ma, larcenous Dad. Then a bum offers some advice...
I dream of three colonies in the deep future. We outlived the universe itself, but can we survive each other?
CAUTION: WAR, GENOCIDE, POLITICAL ALLEGORY