Field guide No. 1261
A beam beyond the lamp
The light came without the lamp.
A dim motel room at night, rain on the window, a bedside lamp lit and a warm cone of light falling on the carpet from nothing above it. The lamp says it has been on the nightstand all along.
Field noteLightcone falls on the carpet with no fixture above it to throw it.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Sardine whale in an empty warehouseSardines shoaling in the air of a warehouse, in a whale’s outline. Plenty of room, no water at all.
Wake that won't closeA tugboat leaves a raised ridge of water behind it. The wake has not settled.
Unfinished businessPebbles on the black beach each hover a lid’s width above their lower halves, split and never finished.
Candy rain beneath a black umbrellaUmbrellas keep the rain off, not on. This one rains sweets under itself only.