anxiety tornado

A sweeping, fast moving state of anxiety that arrives without warning and takes everything in its path with it.

He had made an offhand remark, a minor joke, but to her it incited an anxiety tornado, swirling, uprooting, splintering and lifting her self-worth and sense of security with it until she felt herself to be an emotionally wrecked trailer park.

by Monkey's Dad August 15, 2021

good cop bad cop

A long-time tactic employed in police interrogation, to force a suspect to drop his guard and open up. Now, a duality threatening the fabric of American social justice.

Standing in a line of peaceful protestors seeking acknowledgment of racial injustice, unsure as to whether the well-armed men before him would protect him or attack him, he saw clearly - the good cop bad cop routine had taken to the streets.

by Monkey's Dad June 13, 2020

hookup

A quaint social custom of the early 21st century in which two strangers agreed to occupy the same room for a period of time. Presently unthinkable.

She could almost remember the last time she had been touched, it was a hookup, when she and the world were innocent and a stranger could be seen as an okay thing, not a possible death sentence.

by Monkey's Dad March 19, 2020

Last Woman on Earth

Effectively, the woman any man happens to be with, under lockdown, for the duration of the coronaviral era.

"You have complaints? Please, feel free to find someone else, because right now I may as well be the last woman on earth."

by Monkey's Dad March 30, 2020

isolassitude

Lack of energy and mental fatigue from being alone.

After months of working from home, going nowhere and seeing no one, barely caring to get dressed, he felt crushing isolassitude.

by Monkey's Dad May 01, 2020

theatricoretical

An old-fashioned idea that a newly-released film would play in 'theaters' - places where people once congregated to experience laughter, joy, tears and fear together.

The movie's production budget had been huge, its theatrical release now only theatricoretical. It would be seen in the privacy and safety of people's homes, earning pennies on the dollar.

by Monkey's Dad March 22, 2020

abortlitionist

Someone advocating the abolition of abortion, campaigning to overturn Roe v. Wade.

He was certain of two things: That every American had the right to carry an assault rifle - to school, to Walmart, to church - and that killing was a sin and women had no right to abortion, no matter the circumstance of the pregnancy. He was a righteous abortlitionist.

by Monkey's Dad December 15, 2021