Fiction Made-Up Words
Portelude
(n.) The blank half-second at a door you have used a thousand times, in which you have no idea whether it pushes or pulls.
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Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Duck Files Noise Complaint Against Fountain
The fountain has run since April. The duck has held the north bank since March, and says that order of arrival is the whole point.
Fiction Made-Up Words
Bramblewait
(n.) The pause with your hand already in the hedge, spent deciding that the blackberry you can reach is not the one you deserve.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Snail Completes Six-Metre Crossing, Declines to Comment
Four days, one flagstone path, sixteen hours under a leaf — and at the finish the snail had nothing to say to the assembled woodlice.
Fiction Made-Up Words
Obligallop
(n.) The small, entirely unnecessary jog you perform when a stranger holds a door open for you from an unreasonable distance.
Fiction Useless Inventions
The Hush-Pop: Silent Bubble Wrap
Finally, a way to enjoy the tactile satisfaction of popping bubble wrap without any of that pesky, joyful noise.