Kinchy

Kinchy

adj.
feeling guilty that you care about your own petty concerns more deeply than faraway cataclysms—that a family spat hurts more than a civil war, that a three-day fever hits you harder than climate change.

Japanese 近視 (kinshi), near-sightedness. A word just shy of kinship. Pronounced “kin-chee.”

Anaphasia

Ludiosis

Pax Latrina

Burn Upon Reentry

Adronitis

Catoptric Tristesse

Pâro

Kinchy

Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Heartmoor

a campfire with a kettle many small logs

Xeno

Allope

Drisson

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Hemeisis

Nullness

Skidding

Aubadoir

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

La Cuna