Field guide No. 954

A black flame rises from a match resting in a stone hearth. It has requested a coal allowance.

Black flame in a stone hearth

The hearth burns in negative

A black flame rises from a match resting in a stone hearth. It has requested a coal allowance.

Field noteA black flame rises from a match in the hearth. It has requested a coal allowance.

Specimen
No. 954
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A stone hearth.
Nearest existing relative
A lit match.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics