Winnewaw

a person wearing a party hat

Winnewaw

n.
an unexpected burst of good news that only makes you skeptical, believing that every sudden rise in your fortunes must inevitably be accompanied by an impending fall, which leaves you feeling uneasy at the end of a really good day, waiting around for the punch line.

Middle English winne, joy + wawe, woe. Compare williwaw, a sudden blast of wind descending from the mountains to the sea. Pronounced “win-uh-waw.”

Karanoia

a neat stack of white paper

Offtides

close-up of a chromed metal object

Aimonomia

close-up of a plant with lights glowing in background

Eftless

a person with hands pressed on a window

Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above

Wollah

a person with shapes raining on them

Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car

Evertheless

a person floating in water

Future-Tense

a person looking at their reflection

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Furosha

a storm raging in the sky over a building

Nemotia

a city with clouds of smoke

Suerza

a tunnel with a light emanating from the end

Hem-Jawed

an abstract image of someone touching their face

Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Winnewaw

a person wearing a party hat

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

Future-Tense

a person looking at their reflection

Flashover

Rialtoscuro

a blurry image of a light source

Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face

Tirosy

a close-up of a young child's face

Elsing

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Burn Upon Reentry