Works from the Archive Fall 2010
“Sweet Cotton" by Sarah Joy Freese
Clarence has never left the chicken farm. But when his daughter Gracie drives away on her wedding day, something shifts”feathers, bells, and a glint of angel dust shimmer on the edge of grief. A lyrical tale of tradition, devotion, and reluctant grace.
Tag: Pilgrimage, Grief, Devotion
The first time Clarence realised that he saw angel dust
Atmosfera by Gloria ManuiloviaI
Maya prepares tea, eggs, and thunder. In the quiet ceremony of morning, her household holds its breath. A story of tension cloaked in routine, where the storm outside mirrors the storm within.
Tags: Pilgrimage  Domestic Ritual  Storm-Waiting  Quiet Defiance
Pilgrimage Tag from the Echo Shelf Collection
Coming Soon
From the Echo Shelf: five works from our Autumn 2010 issue. Walk the path of pilgrimage-through light, ritual, memory, and silence.
Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage
Drawn from TLW Autumn 2010
First Tag Added: July 2025
“We do not walk to arrive, but to remember."
These works were first published when the leaves turned in 2010-but their steps still echo underfoot here in the village. They speak of sacred rhythms, domestic rituals, and quiet returns. Orla found them while dusting the chapel ledge. Said the stones there were warm. Said the shelf was humming.
The Kitchen at Number Six
🖋️ From Orla’s side notes: “Maudie O’Byrne boils her water to silence the walls.
Every morning, Maudie sets two plates”one for herself, one for whatever memory might come calling. The house is quiet, but never still. The eggs crack louder here. The floorboards shift with each change in weather or mood.
It’s said she hasn’t opened her back door since the day the storm took the ash tree. It still groans in her sleep, she says. When it rains, she listens to the drip in the sink and says nothing. But the way she stirs her tea, clockwise, slow, always four times”well, Orla says that’s a spell to hold the roof on.