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.”

Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Alpha Exposure

a close-up of a baby with diffusion filter

Lisolia

a bookcase containing objects

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Affogatia

miscellaneous items on a table

Enterhood

adults with stern expressions holding a child

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Clockwise

a close-up of flower along with polaroid pictures

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles

Allope

Cover image for the Allope word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Altschmerz

Cover image for the Altschmerz word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

La Gaudière

Cover image for the La Gaudière word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Aubadoir

Cover image for the Aubadoir word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Star-Stuck

a man walking towards a door with a large question mark

Dead Reckoning

Cover image for the Dead Reckoning word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Los Vidados

Cover image for the Los Vidados word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Pax Latrina

Cover image for the Pax Latrina word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows