by Jonathan Riley | Sep 21, 2026 | BROTHER GILDAS
The Light That Did Not Answer Part 1 Year of Our Lord 557 Recorded by Brother Gildas Part One We saw the tower before we reached the village beneath it, a broken finger of stone against the sky where the moor gives way to cliff and the cliff gives way, without...
by Jonathan Riley | Sep 21, 2026 | BROTHER GILDAS
The Fog Returns Year of Our Lord 557, the first cold nights of autumn Recorded by Brother Gildas It came in from the river at dusk, the way it always comes, though I do not usually remark on weather in these pages. I remark on it now because Norwyn stopped walking...
by Jonathan Riley | Sep 9, 2026 | BROTHER GILDAS
Year of Our Lord 557 Recorded by Brother Gildas The Wisp The Light Beyond the Heather We went out because a shepherd would not go out himself, and asked us to go in his place, which is not the usual order of things, but he was frightened in a manner I have learned not...
by Jonathan Riley | Sep 6, 2026 | BROTHER WILFRID
Year of Our Lord 557 An account given to Brother Wilfrid by an old woman of the valley, called Aedre, and set down by him as nearly as he could recall her words Gilded Woman *I set this down as she gave it to me, changing as little as I am able. She would not come...
by Jonathan Riley | Sep 6, 2026 | BROTHER NORWYN
Year of Our Lord 557 From the Sketchbook of Brother Norwyn Amber Child Wilfrid asked me to set down what I would not say aloud. I do not write easily. These are not sentences so much as things I noted, in the order I noted them. First evening. A child at the end of...