*In the Lab w/ Caroline was lived in front of a citywide audience. Caroline opened the door by waving her hand in front of the…
Three voices. One literary house.
Author: Melvin Horton
Melvin Horton is a Buddhist practitioner who combines Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions with his Baptist roots, Catholic upbringing and his meditation and yoga practices.
He is a student of Gnostic Christianity, Tibetan Buddhist and Zen Meditation.
He writes essays, short stories and poetry.
He has a cat name Marvin.
Summertime on the Island of Pain consisted of hot days and cold nights, but with the Autumn came a drop in the temperature that tested…
Mother Ruth and eleven of her most senior meditation students set out on an extended wilderness retreat in the mountains and forests far away and…
“While the heart is awake, the ego is asleep.” Bitter old men in ancient temples have always found a way to elevate human beings into…
“Forgive me, Great Mother, for I have sinned. It has been several lifetimes since my last confession.” In 1839, before the First Opium War, the…
The northernmost island of Shanqui Jian was the Island of Pain, with its mountain peaks, high-altitude steps, and cable cars. It held the university campus,…
Mama Muni was the university’s librarian. She was forgiving and sweet, sharp-witted and patient. She was a matron to even the older women in the…
In the Book of Genesis, man is made flesh by God. In the Garden of Eden, woman is made from man’s bones—and it is she…
Rebecca waved her arms and it wasn’t working. Rebecca wasn’t even her real name. It was something she had found in a book. Mei knew…
Mei’s journey to the Walled City began when she was sixteen, on an old Riwoche with solid knees and a pleasant disposition. She remembered hating…
In 1909, a year after Mei Lubaba left her father’s farm, slavery was officially abolished on the archipelago near the East China Sea that Mei…
In 1893 a man named Herbert Wells uncovered the mysteries of time travel for a universe that would eventually forget his middle name. Little Mei…