Field guide No. 301

A crowd in seventies shirts leans over the lane as three bowling balls crack open and pins hatch out of them. Everyone is very quiet about it.

Cracked bowling balls hatch pins

Strike, eventually.

A crowd in seventies shirts leans over the lane as three bowling balls crack open and pins hatch out of them. Everyone is very quiet about it.

Field noteBowling balls are not eggs and pins are not chicks. Nothing contradicts itself; it is just the wrong kind of thing.

Specimen
No. 301
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Category
Where it doesn’t exist
A bowling alley, lane four.
Nearest existing relative
An egg.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking category