Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Cullaways

n.
the scattering of memories that your brain is actively forgetting at any given moment, erasing them one by one with no input from you and no knowledge that it’s happening at all—which means that when you wake up in the morning, your past will feel imperceptibly altered, with no trace of what you ate last week, a party you attended ten years ago, or the first real conversation you had with your grandfather.

From cull, to control the size of a herd by selectively killing some animals + away. Pronounced “kuhl-uh-weys.”

Tillid

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Achenia

a close-up of a bottle with an organic object inside

Wenbane

a person standing on a ledge looking at a city skyline

Flashover

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Mal De Coucou

a blurry image of several men

Mauerbauertraurigkeit

Mauerbauer-traurigkeit

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