The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

The Upper Midwest's third-largest compendium of the outer spatters of the emotional palette. Our mission is to harpoon, bag and tag wild sorrows, then release them back into the subconscious.

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JOHN KOENIG is a freelance creative serf based in St. Paul, Minnesota where he attended Macalester College in the early part of the century. He enjoys piano jazz, deep image poetry, sauvignon blanc, canyons and nostalgia.

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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n. an innocuous touch by someone just doing their job—a barber, yoga instructor or friendly waitress—that you enjoy more than you’d like to admit, a feeling of connection so stupefyingly simple that it cheapens the power of the written word, so that by the year 2025, aspiring novelists would be better off just giving people a hug.

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