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.”

Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Anticious

a group of men in hats looking at elevated signage

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Clockwise

a close-up of flower along with polaroid pictures

Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock

The Whipgraft Delusion

Cover image for the The Whipgraft Delusion word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Sitheless

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

The Unsharp Mask

a mirror with a reflection of a person

Adomania

a person riding a horse

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Aesthosis

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

Hiddled

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