Remordia

Remordia is the small wince of re-reading something you already sent. The message is delivered. The email has left. The words are gone the way only spoken and sent words can be gone — out of your hands, into someone else's, unrecallable. And now you see the phrasing you'd change, the tone you didn't mean, the joke that won't land the way it did in your head. The bite is not large. It is just persistent, returning at intervals like a thing that wants to be re-felt. Most of the time the reader noticed none of it. The audit is yours alone, performed in a court where you are the only one still in session. Naming it doesn't unsend anything. It just reminds you that the version of you who pressed send was doing their best with the information they had.