Deep Gut

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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.

Future-Tense

a person looking at their reflection

Solla, Solla, Solla

a hand reaching out for plant tendril

Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car

Mauerbauertraurigkeit

Mauerbauer-traurigkeit

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Momophobia

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Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk