Field guide No. 658
Fossil lightning across the cliff
Struck once, kept for good.
Down the face of a dark layered cliff runs a pale, branching seam the exact shape of a lightning bolt, set into the rock like a fossil. Geologists will want to know what it ate.
Field noteStone keeps bones and shells. A flash lasting a thousandth of a second has no body to leave, yet here it is, set.
- Specimen
- No. 658
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A dark sea cliff under cloud.
- Nearest existing relative
- A fossil, and a lightning bolt.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking category
Three kings, one impossible boardChess has two sides and a king each. A third king means the game contradicts its own rules.
The tidal channel’s shed skinWater keeps no skin to shed. This channel peeled off a clear one, every ripple kept, and moved over.
Two deer, one living antlerTwo deer share one branching antler. The herd has reduced its headcount of horns.
Waves growing from torn kelpKelp lives in the waves, so waves sprouting from kelp puts the sea inside its own seaweed.