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Rhathymia

Welcome to The Word! Either a story beginning, a story ending, a piece of flash fiction, a poem, painting, dance move—inspired by the word, rhathymia, where does it take me? Where does it take you?

[ ruh-thahy-mee-uh ]

Noun

  1. Carefree behavior; light-heartedness

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He whistled a song of his own making, improvising the next notes one after the other. His foot tapped to a rhythm of his own design, steady and slow. Heartbeats matched the taps of his foot, and his breath was like ocean waves—the kind that lulled you to sleep. 

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Farrago

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[ fuh-RAH-goh ]

Noun

  1. A confused mixture: hodgepodge.

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Ben played the piano keeping his eyes fixed upon the score in front of him. Yet, he wasn’t actually reading the notes. He’d already memorized this piece from playing it over and over again. Ben’s eyes closed to feel the music. 

 Whack! 

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Eventide

Welcome to The Word! Either a story beginning, a story ending, a piece of flash fiction, a poem, painting, dance move—inspired by the word, eventide, where does it take me? Where does it take you?

[ EE-vən-tahyd ]

Noun

  1. The end of the day.
  2. Evening.

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The feelings swirling through him were a mixture of that anger and defiance one gets when they’ve been wronged—that energy of a resistor—combined with a nauseating fear, unlike anything he’d experienced before. 

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Antepenultimate

Welcome to The Word! Either a story beginning, a story ending, a piece of flash fiction, a poem, painting, dance move—inspired by the word, antepenultimate, where does it take me? Where does it take you?

[ an-tee-pi-nuhl-tuh-mit ]

Adjective

  1. Third from the end.

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It was three minutes until midnight when the world ended. That’s three minutes earlier than it was supposed to end, too! Not sure what those scientists got wrong in their calculations, but I guess it’s within some statistical range of error. That doesn’t really matter now, though, does it? 

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Rumbustious

Welcome to The Word! Either a story beginning, a story ending, a piece of flash fiction, a poem, painting, dance move—inspired by the word, rumbustious, where does it take me? Where does it take you?

[ rəm-bəs-chəs ]

Adjective

  1. Boisterous or unruly.

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He tried to ignore them and concentrate on his work, but to say they were intrusive was an understatement. 

 “Please, listen to us,” Betty said. 

 “Yes, just listen,” Karl added.

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