Deep Gut

Cover image for the Deep Gut word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Deep Gut

n.
a resurgent emotion that you hadn’t felt in years, that you might have forgotten about completely if your emotional playlist hadn’t accidentally been left on shuffle.

In music, a deep cut is a lesser-known track that only an artist’s true fans or completists might appreciate.

Dead Reckoning

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

Solla, Solla, Solla

a hand reaching out for plant tendril

Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock