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Melvinity

A monastery-university stacked up a snowbound cliff face beneath deep blue mountain sky.

The text-only edition of Melvinity — every Melvin Horton story, same words, no images, in publication order. Prefer pictures with your fiction? Enter the illustrated Melvinity »

  1. Eight Questions for the Goddess — Eight questions. One night. A goddess decides her fate.
  2. A Portrait of the Daughter as a Young Rebel — She refused the marriage — and the yaks took her side.
  3. A Study in Silver — Fourteen silver coins. One hunger for books. A love no law allows.
  4. Parallel Lives of Melvin & Mei — A boy who wants to die. A girl about to. One shared dream.
  5. What About the Yak in My Mother’s Kitchen? — A yak in the kitchen. A mother’s ghost. A girl about to run.
  6. How to Deal with Death — Condemned by a child. Defended by a ghost. Judged by Death.
  7. Sister Ruth — She sees the gods no one else believes are there.
  8. The Joy of Painting Your Own Reality — The dead crowd every hall. Only one book can quiet them.
  9. Uninteresting Moments of Necessary Silence — She buried her past. One teasing smile dug it back up.
  10. Love in a Dead Language — She cannot lie to a girl who hears every lie.
  11. Keeping Up with the Daughters of Mara — Three demons, one forbidden love, and a nun who walks in dreams.
  12. Milarepa’s Ghost — On a sacred mountain, the only enemy left is her own lies.
  13. The Three Mahasiddhas — Three dead masters. One freezing nun. Each lesson costs an illusion.