Field guide No. 776

A red apple rests on a wooden table whose shadow has eaten a ragged hole through the boards. The fruit has no such appetite.

Apple shadow devours the wooden table

A bite mark with good aim.

A red apple rests on a wooden table whose shadow has eaten a ragged hole through the boards. The fruit has no such appetite.

Field noteApple shadows can only darken a surface. This one seems to have taken the boards with it; physics, not logic.

Specimen
No. 776
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A sunlit worktable in an empty room.
Nearest existing relative
A red apple, and a wooden table.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics