Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Énouement

n.
the bittersweetness of having arrived here in the future, finally learning the answers to how things turned out but being unable to tell your past self.

French énouer, to pluck defective bits from a stretch of cloth + dénouement, the final part of a story, in which all the threads of the plot are drawn together and everything is explained. Pronounced “ey-noo-mahn.”

Sayfish

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

Moriturism

a person resting in the back seat of a car

Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Fygophobia

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

Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape