Suerza

a tunnel with a light emanating from the end

Suerza

n.
a feeling of quiet amazement that you exist at all; a sense of gratitude that you were even born in the first place, that you somehow emerged alive and breathing despite all odds, having won an unbroken streak of reproductive lotteries that stretches all the way back to the beginning of life itself.

Spanish suerte, luck + fuerza, force. Pronounced “soo-wair-zuh.”

Kairosclerosis

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

Ghough

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

Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Eftless

a person with hands pressed on a window

Innity

a neatly made bed with diffused light glowing

Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles