Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Keir

n.
an ill-fated attempt to reenact a beloved memory years later, returning to a place that once felt like home, only to find it now feels uncannily off, like walking through a wax museum of your own childhood.

Dutch kier, fissure or narrow opening, as in the midpoint of an hourglass. Pronounced “keer.”

Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Nyctous

a person walking in the middle of a street

Dead Reckoning

Cover image for the Dead Reckoning word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase

La Gaudière

Cover image for the La Gaudière word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine