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…
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…