Field guide No. 959
Borrowed backbone
A spine on loan
A translucent slug carries an exposed spine along wet ground. The loan has been approved against next year’s mucus.
Field noteA slug carries an exposed spine. The loan is secured against next year’s mucus.
- Specimen
- No. 959
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- Wet ground after rain.
- Nearest existing relative
- A slug.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
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