Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Blinkback

n.
the disillusionment of revisiting a pop-culture touchstone of your youth and finding that it hasn’t aged well at all—having to confront its cringey dialogue, hand-puppet characterization, and wildly implausible plotting—which only makes you wonder what else in your mental fridge is past its expiration date.

Appalachian English (dialect) blinked, soured milk + back, in the past.

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Tirosy

a close-up of a young child's face

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Anticious

a group of men in hats looking at elevated signage

Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Lisolia

a bookcase containing objects

Echthesia

blurry image of two clocks

Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Nowlings

a pile of black and white puzzle pieces

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Walloway

water faucet that seems to emanate from the ground

Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Eftless

a person with hands pressed on a window

Suente

Ne’er-Be-Gone

Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Hickering

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Merrenness

Nachlophobia