A nightly log

BLOSSOM WORDS

One good word a night, grown from the Blossom board.
The funny-looking ones are always load-bearing.

A ritual bonfire on a night moor, its smoke resolving into a ghost-herd of cattle
October 12, 2026
NEEDFIRE
/ˈniːdˌfaɪər/ · NEED-fire · noun

Old English nīedfȳr — a ritual fire kindled by friction in a time of calamity, lit to protect the herd from plague while every other hearth in the district stood cold.

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Mneme walking a midnight library where the books are blank but their shadows are full of writing
October 11, 2026
MNEME
/ˈniːmiː/ · NEE-mee · noun

The personification of memory — one of the three elder Muses, before the famous nine. She survives by hiding inside other words: mnemonic, amnesia, anamnesis.

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