Field guide No. 649
Ember trapped in branching ice
A snowflake with a fire on.
A big six-armed snowflake lies on dark wet rock with an ember glowing inside it, its veins running red through the ice. The flake is not melting, and neither is the ember going out.
Field noteFire burns in the heart of a snowflake and neither gives. Something here is both hot enough and cold enough.
- Specimen
- No. 649
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- Dark wet rock, close up.
- Nearest existing relative
- A snowflake.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Winter under glassA mirror shows what is in front of it. Showing frost that isn’t there makes it not a mirror, while being one.
Two realities interlock in one apartmentOne room is two different rooms along a crack, and the radiator on the line belongs to both.
Unlit match, burning reflectionMirrors only repeat what is there. This one lights a match that is unlit, and the flame spills past the frame.
One moth, six shadowsMoth sits under one bulb and throws six shadows fanned like a flower.