Heartworm

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

Heartworm

n.
a relationship or friendship that you can’t get out of your head, which you thought had faded long ago but is still somehow alive and unfinished, like an abandoned campsite whose smoldering embers still have the power to start a forest fire.

From heart + earworm, a catchy piece of music that compulsively loops inside your head.

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Craxis

a tall house of cards

Suerza

a tunnel with a light emanating from the end

The Kick Drop

Cover image for the The Kick Drop word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest