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A Treasury of New Words and Terms for Burned-Out (Adult) Children. Top Story - November 2023. Content Warning.
Greetings and Welcome, language lovers. Following the Neolomicro Challenge, I was left with a lot of bizarre definitions that I thought might give some of you a chuckle. These are the offcuts that I ran out of time / inclination to pursue. I hope you enjoy them, and that they can be the start of a glorious new dictionary for these beleaguered times.
By Conor Darrall3 years ago in Fiction
Verapathy. Runner-Up in the Neolomicro Challenge.
"Do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you, God?" "I don't." The prosecutor picked up a notebook and approached the witness stand. "Turning to the events ..."
By Donald J. Bingle3 years ago in Fiction
Nufonimous
Nufonimous: adj The location or sensation of direct contact with an uncanny ‘otherness’ that has not been immediately preceded by administration of a recreational pharmaceutical.
By Ian Vince3 years ago in Fiction
Neospective
Advertising Copy: Here is the newest addition for the modern home: the modern rotary connection device. Arriving at our offices after a long and detailed discussion over form, features and price, we decided that what you really need is a communication device that will not disappear when you most need it; will be available in one specific location in the home; and will be available for generations to come!
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Fiction
Co-opticians
“So, what do you think?” I had known Mike my whole life; hard not to with our families being from the same island and our going to the same schools, studying the same things, chasing after the same girls.
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Fiction
Apocolypstick
Lady Peace struts her stuff when times are good. When the Gross Domestic Product is rising; industry, bustling; exports outpacing imports. Lady Peace knows how to dance when the music plays gaily. She dresses jaunty and wears enticing lipstick. Kisses for everyone!
By Gerard DiLeo3 years ago in Fiction
Seasonal Solidarity
Amy stared around the Zoom Room, a collective of young women two plaintive moans away from being called an Emergency Meeting. "So, do the fates just hate us, or shall we blame it on Capitalism?"
By Natasja Rose3 years ago in Fiction
Patientdoctorese
Martha was smiling wide, her cheeks practically ripping at the seams. Her doctor was grinning right back. There was no cancer, and her body was back on track.
By Hope Martin3 years ago in Fiction
Populus
The outside world was unknown to her, but she could see a glimpse of it through the window in his room. The once lush and vibrant landscape had become a vast expanse of desert, whose deep fissures etched their way through fractal plates of clay like stretch marks. They seemed to strain upward over the monolithic city walls, to grasp desperately at what scant enduring moisture might still be suspended in the cloudless sky. Perhaps she was projecting. The world had grown tough, in recent years, not to view through a colourless lens. Surface runoff from the nearby mountains, which the Architect had once redirected to flow through the citadel, had been exhausted ages ago… And rainfall had become a rare phenomenon that the Elder now recounted with reverent longing. Groundwater, drawn from aquifers deep beneath the city, had since served as their primary water supply; The majority of which was reserved for maintaining crops and livestock.
By J3 years ago in Fiction
Of Three Faces
“Three-fold battle Goddess / Hear our plaintive rhyme /Guide us to your wisdom /In these dark and evil times…" "Guys, no, we shouldn't be doing it like this."
By Conor Darrall3 years ago in Fiction
Prenoctintoxicated
Noon Well, I guess a couple beers won't hurt. After all, the game's on in an hour, and the gang's all here, why not cop a buzz? No more than two, though. Got a whole twelve pack in the fridge, but I don't need to get carried away.
By C. Rommial Butler3 years ago in Fiction
Google Maps is rolling out AI-powered features for planning trips on iPhone . Content Warning.
Google Guides is adding numerous new man-made brainpower highlights for iOS clients to work on the most common way of arranging outings and see their courses before they show up.
By Md Hasan3 years ago in Fiction