Field guide No. 421
A leash tied to the horizon
Walkies, eventually.
A small terrier sits on a flat, empty desert, its red lead stretched taut to a single point on the horizon. Whoever is on the other end is in no hurry.
Field noteLeads tie to posts and hands. The horizon is neither, and it backs away as you walk toward it.
- Specimen
- No. 421
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A flat desert, as far as it goes.
- Nearest existing relative
- A dog lead.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
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