Sensory Word of the Week | wisps

noun / wisps / wisp / wisping / wisped / wispy

(Seeing) barely discernable thing or group of things that twist

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wispsnoun / wisps / wisp / wisping / wisped / wispy (Seeing) barely discernable thing or group of things that twist All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the fee of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes — characters even — caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.

Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale)

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