Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

Zysia

n.
the sense that you were born too early in history, all too aware of how crude and backward the present can be, feeling tired of having to sit through so much clunky exposition and slow-burning suspense, when all you want to do is skip ahead to find out what happens next.

A word tantalizingly close to being the last word of the dictionary, but not quite there. Pronounced “zee-zhah.”

Ne’er-Be-Gone

Cover image for the Ne’er-Be-Gone word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Walloway

water faucet that seems to emanate from the ground

Kenaway

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

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Harke

a dreamlike image of a person's face over water

Lyssamania

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