Watashiato
The curiosity about the impact you’ve had on the lives of the people you know, wondering which of…
The Standard Blues
The sad awareness that the unfolding plot of your life feels new and profound but is not unique,…
The Tilt Shift
A phenomenon in which your lived experience seems oddly inconsequential once you put it down on paper, which…
Contact high-five
An innocuous touch by someone just doing their job—a barber, yoga instructor or friendly waitress—that you enjoy more…
Dream Fever
The intense heat on the skin of a sleeping person, a radioactive byproduct of an idle mind humming…
La cuna
A twinge of sadness that there’s no frontier left, that as the last explorer trudged with his armies…
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…