Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Inerrata

n.
a kind of mistake you wouldn’t take back even if you could; the reluctance to disown a broken relationship or agonizing experience that has since become part of who you are, and trying to disown it would mean you’re trying to live some other life.

Latin in-, not + errata, mistakes in a printed work. Pronounced “in-eh-rah-tuh.”

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Etterath

a graduation cap and gown on a chair

Spinning Playback Head

silhouette of a person looking out a window

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Solla, Solla, Solla

a hand reaching out for plant tendril

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Anchorage

a person's arm extended over river rapids

Affogatia

miscellaneous items on a table

Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock

Heart Of Aces

a person covering their eyes with their hands

Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Nowlings

a pile of black and white puzzle pieces

Monachopsis

Cover image for the Monachopsis word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Zverism

Cover image for the Zverism word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine

Affogatia

miscellaneous items on a table

The Til

Cover image for the The Til word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Idlewild

Cover image for the Idlewild word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized