Field guide No. 842
Centipede zipper on a moonlit tent
The tent zips itself shut
A long centipede forms the zipper along a red tent in the woods. Camping has acquired a very literal fastener.
Field noteA centipede serves as a zipper, with legs where teeth should be. Camping has found a new fastening.
- Specimen
- No. 842
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A red tent in the woods.
- Nearest existing relative
- A tent zipper.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
Double ended garden snailOne snail has a head at each end of its body. Neither direction gets right of way.
Library book reveals ancient geological strataPages turn and rock layers don’t, yet the right-hand half of this book is both at once.
A scarf’s impossible shadowTaut scarf, slack shadow. One object, two tensions, and only one of them is telling the truth.
Moth extruding an empty cocoonThe cocoon is supposed to come first. This moth is out, grown, and still spinning the case it came from.