Looseleft

Looseleft

adj.

feeling a sense of loss upon finishing a good book, sensing the weight of the back cover locking away the lives of characters you’ve gotten to know so well.

From looseleaf, a removable sheet of paper + left, departed.

From the Dictionary

Drisson

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Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Routwash

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Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Malotype

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