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...The silver tour bus fills with a sweet smoke. Vapors curl up the nose and rest along the rims of eyes, many sets, glowing in dim light. Hairy beasts inhabit a clouded interior; they are grown men with fur from their faces down to their bellies, sprouting from scalps, and flowing past baggy shirts to the seat of worn jeans. Passing green bottles, they commune around a table that folds from the wall. They mutter among themselves in some distant tongue the girl is just beginning to decipher... (Boogie Beast)

...Even using a scientific model, if my universe collapses into itself, it should then re-expand to form a new configuration... And I remember that I have felt powerful, weightless, hovering above a wide landscape of shifting glittering shadows. A haloed red star guided my turns as I shrunk, expanded, and devoured space. When my skirt lifted, sidelights warmed my shins. I syncopated and led the music, pausing briefly in air before descending, like a swing at the top of its arc... (Stephen Hawking, Only Stupid)

...In this first dream, George W. Bush ran for president against Princess Diana, who had been cloned and accelagrown. George was upset by the media calling Diana "Princess" and not dubbing him "Prince.” The Princess was the press favorite, as she repeatedly experienced wardrobe malfunctions and flashed the paparazzi out the top of her Vera Wang gown. This bumped her up in the poles. Ami awoke with a feeling that all was not lost... (untitled)