I am told to leave ( Read more... )

I swam with the deer-god in His water-form, a sort of cervine selkie. Down, down, to the depths of the dark ocean. He loaned a mer-tail, that we might go the faster.

"What is your deepest desire for him? What is the true motivation?" He asked, as we skimmed over black stone. We had left fulfillments behind, near the surface: gone below the story ( Read more... )

Performers who had tremendously altered themselves: gigantic heads with single, enormous eyes or nostrils, supported by filigrees of brass. Round apertures like portals, set with swinging, spinning doors leading into the laryngeal space like bellows, or lenses of water-clear quartz protecting a fist-sized, carefully bioengineered eye. They prided ( Read more... )

Running, ever running toward the center of the city, to the rough towers at its heart, all made from the same blue stone as the rest, but here darker, unpolished: not carved into elaborate facets and windows, but left to stand in their unchallenged aspect.

The chamber was enormous: surely filling the center of this tower. The structure within, ( Read more... )

Most recent first; going backwards in time a few months ( Read more... )

The balloon pilot drove forward, into the teeth of the snowstorm. His basket flew only a few dozen feet above the abandoned highway, the balloon driven before it at an impossible angle. The storms never stopped, these days; the road had been impassible by other methods for years ( Read more... )

I was a pale young woman; white all over with pale auburn hair.  I worked in a bookshop (modern esoteric, with a room of rare volumes) on the second floor.  We had closed to business earlier in the evening (a remembered rush of customers) and now the owner and i - he also pale, but dark-haired, only a little older - leaned against the counter in ( Read more... )

Sometimes, if the dream is very small, and i am very asleep, i end up sticking it in a tweet, rolling over, and falling straight back into REM, forgetting it completely for days, or sometimes using it as a memory trigger to write down the rest later.  In any case, i'll put them here periodically ( Read more... )

I've let a fair bit of this slip away by accident, and it was somewhat silly to begin with, but to stay in practice ( Read more... )

In two parts. The first is not that important; the second is ( Read more... )