Austice
A wistful omen of the first sign of autumn—a subtle coolness in the shadows, a rustling of dead…
Scabulous
Proud of a scar on your body, which is an autograph signed to you by a world grateful…
The Meantime
The moment of realization that your quintessential future self isn’t ever going to show up, which forces the…
Ellipsism
The sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out, that you’ll dutifully pass…
Monachopsis
The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place, as maladapted to your surroundings as a seal…
Slipcast
The default expression that your face automatically reverts to when idle—amused, melancholic, pissed off—which occurs when a strong…
Anthrodynia
A state of exhaustion with how shitty people can be to each other, typically causing a countervailing sense…
Fata Organa
A flash of real emotion glimpsed in someone sitting across the room, idly locked in the middle of…
Agnosthesia
The state of not knowing how you really feel about something, which forces you to sift through clues…
Backmasking
The instinctive tendency to see someone as you knew them in their youth, a burned-in image of grass-stained…
Wytai
A feature of modern society that suddenly strikes you as absurd and grotesque—from zoos and milk-drinking to organ…
Mimeomia
The frustration of knowing how easily you fit into a stereotype, even if you never intended to, even…
Lachesism
For a million years, we’ve watched the sky and huddled in fear. But somehow you still find yourself…
Socha
It’s the kind of basic human vulnerability that we’d all find familiar, but is still somehow surprising when…