Furosha

a storm raging in the sky over a building

Furosha

n.
the eerie tranquility of fast-moving clouds, who pass through your patch of sky like a drifter stepping into your entryway to warm up for a minute, ruffling the ice from his beard before he nods his gratitude and turns back into the air.

Japanese ふ浪者 (furōsha), vagrant, vagabond. Onomatopoeic to the sound of a sudden gust of wind. Pronounced “fuh-roh-shuh.”

Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

Future-Tense

a person looking at their reflection

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Monachopsis

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