Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Ellipsism

n.
the sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out, that you’ll dutifully pass on the joke of being alive without ever learning the punch line, which may not suit your sense of humor anyway and will probably involve how many people it takes to change a lightbulb.

From ellipsis, a marker of a continuation that you don’t get to see. Pronounced “ih-lip-siz-uhm.”

Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock

Loss Of Backing

Cover image for the Loss Of Backing word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Affogatia

miscellaneous items on a table

Falesia

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

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral