Flashover

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Flashover

n.
the moment a conversation becomes real and alive, when a spark of trust shorts out the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers of irony, momentarily grounding the static emotional charge you’ve built up through decades of friction with the world.

In firefighting, a flashover is when all the flammable material in an area combusts all at once.

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Mornden

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Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench

Insoucism

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Boorance

a group of objects on a table

Future-Tense

a person looking at their reflection