#grey lodge

Pt. 2 of Wife’s Birthday

Grey Lodge Viewing Area

November 21, 2020

It felt good to create with these hands.  They had been working on the west wall of the orphanage for three days now.  Tearing down the old siding, replacing load bearing posts.  Praying the roof would not come down on top of them.  Charred wood replaced with fresh pine.  When they were done, a coat of white would be added, washing away the sins of the previous week.

Some would call it menial labor, but to him.  To him it had become a refuge.  He smelled of fresh cut pine, sawdust, and sweat.  His hands were uncovered, and there was grime under his fingernails.   Dirt and dust for once.  Not blood.  This was a good change.

 “Another accident at the Orphanage?”  “Kids need to be more careful” “Someone’s a little pyromaniac”

He didn’t bother to correct them, content to let them believe that the fires were happenstance.  In a way, it was true, it was not a deliberate act. The fallacy seemed to cause no ill will towards the other children that lived in the Lakeshire orphanage.  The wards over the years had become a constant fixture about the town.  They did will trying to earn their keep.  They often acquired coin for helping around the town, running errands, chasing run away livestock, or similar.  They were paid well in crowns even if it is not the true currency an orphan wishes.

I might be courting a SOPA charge by linking to this, but someone's made the entirety of the defunct Grey Lodge Occult Review available for download.

Psychedelic Heroin: Grey Lodge Archives

The rest of the site is worth poking around in as well. For example, here's a collection of spoken word snippets from various thinkers that Technoccult readers may be familiar with.

I just received this e-mail from the Greylodge e-mailing list:

Greylodge.org has now officially and we're pretty sure, finally closed. After almost 10 years of serving the indie book/music/film community,. being covered on MSNBC, written up in the Wall Street Journal and blogged on Boing-Boing and countless other blogs, we have finally caved under the pressure of countless legal threats, religious hackers and finally the tragedy of losing Doctor Grey. Maybe someday we'll start something new, but for now, we leave it to someone else to step up and fill the void.

It's been a pleasure serving you.

Peace,

-Pale Rider