Field guide No. 1541
Cart before floor
The floor came up to meet it
Empty shopping trolleys stand in an aisle of bare shelves, each on a smooth blister bulging out of the shiny floor. The trolleys are parked on the floor’s own lumps.
Field noteTrolleys perch on blisters in the lino, the floor swelling up to meet the wheels.
Also possible, also breaking material
Emerald snake sheds silver chainmailSnakes shed skin. Shedding a suit of metal rings means growing one first, oddly.
Roots growing through broken terracottaRoots through clay are real enough; roots with no plant at the top are less so. The soil kept growing.
The static filled deep endA pool brimful of black and white static. The tiles, ladder and board all hold; the water is what is missing.
Bad applesWindfalls rotting outward into flat furry caps, each one a fruit halfway to fungus.