Field guide No. 119
Cloud service
Your weather, sir.
A brass room-service trolley in a hotel corridor lifts its cloche to release a small rain cloud over the soup.
Field noteA small cloud can be made in a jar. Making one stay over the soup is a matter for the hotel.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Roots above, apples belowTrees could grow upside down if gravity agreed. It doesn’t; logic doesn’t mind.
The porcelain orchardOlive trees fruit olives. Teacups would be a breakthrough in botany, not in logic.
The last unread snowfallBooks describe snow; they don’t usually issue it. The rest of the desk is perfectly ordinary.
The last matchSmoke setting solid is chemistry misbehaving. A cube of anything is still a perfectly sound cube.