Heartworm

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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.

Etherness

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Heartworm

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Querinous

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Foilsick

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Sitheless

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Immerensis

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Dorgone

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Attriage

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Fata Organa

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Hanker Sore

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Ochisia

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Mottleheaded

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Los Vidados

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Flashover

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Waldosia

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Lookaback

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Lackout

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Appriesse

a blurry image of a person looking at mounted images

Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Emorries

a magnifying glass over photos and books

Hobsmacked

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The Meantime

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Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Elsewise

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The Whipgraft Delusion

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Looseleft

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