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.”

Furosha

a storm raging in the sky over a building

Typifice

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Desanté

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Nowlings

a pile of black and white puzzle pieces

Agnosthesia

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Affogatia

miscellaneous items on a table