Field guide No. 1538
Before the storm
Rain, waiting upstairs
A metal barn sits in a muddy field with its roof pulled up into spikes, and above it large drops hang in the air under dark cloud. The roof reached for the rain before it fell.
Field noteCorrugated roof rises in points toward drops that hang above it, not yet falling.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Breathing shells after closingLiving shellfish can breathe on a counter after closing. The market has kept one customer.
Red glow in dry grassFrosted grass glows from within at dusk. A coal was kept, and nobody filed it.
PaperworkSheet of paper heavy enough to sink stainless steel into a funnel around itself.
Fossil fish bends the stoneFossils keep still for a living. This one has flexed, and the slab had to bend round it.