Dystoria

close up of water drops on a window

Dystoria

n.
a feeling of irrelevance from the broader forces of history; the sense that your life has no relationship to any great mission, no generational hardship, not even an enemy—feeling as harmless as a droplet skittering down a window, that could’ve just as easily taken part in a tidal wave.

Latin dys-, bad + historia, history. Pronounced “dis-toh-ree-uh.”

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Knellish

a blurry image of a person lying on a bed

Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Desanté

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Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Solla, Solla, Solla

a hand reaching out for plant tendril

Nighthawk

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Dystoria

close up of water drops on a window

Furosha

a storm raging in the sky over a building

Aubadoir

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Insoucism

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Dead Reckoning

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