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…
Moment of Tangency
A Glimpse of what might have been.. You and I have never met, many times before. Our paths…
The Wends
The frustration that you’re not enjoying an experience as much as you should, even something you’ve worked for…
Ringlorn
The wish that the modern world felt as epic as the one depicted in old stories and folktales—a…
Aftersome
Astonished to think back on the bizarre sequence of accidents that brought you to where you are today—as…
Dès Vu
The awareness that this moment will become a memory. Derived from French dès vu, “seen as soon as”…
Pluviophile
People that love rain are called pluviophiles. The word pluviophile comes from the Latin word “pluvial,” which means…
Nefelibata
“cloud walker”; one who lives in the clouds of their own imagination, or one who does not obey…
Lutalica
When you were born they put you in a little box and slapped a label on it. But…
Meliorism
The belief that the world gets better, the belief that humans can improve the world. In other words,…
Bohemian
A person who is interested in art, music or literature, and lives in a very informal way, ignoring…