Field guide No. 077
Cold side of the pillow
Find it, and stay there.
A torn pillow on an unmade bed opens onto a glowing blue ice cave, with a tiny explorer standing at the entrance.
Field noteAn ice cave runs deeper than the pillow it opens from. Bigger inside than out, and colder.
- Specimen
- No. 077
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- An unmade bed, mid-afternoon, under a sunny window.
- Nearest existing relative
- A pillow, and a glacier cave.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking scale
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The paperweight glacierA mountain range in a paperweight would be a model. The glacier leaving it at full size settles otherwise.
Space to soakGalaxies run to a hundred thousand light years. The tub runs to about five feet.
Milky Way breakfastGalaxies are not portion-sized. A small one is a contradiction served in a bowl.