Field guide No. 661
Fur lined sandstone canyon
Insulated for winter.
From above, a pale sandstone canyon winds away into the distance, its lower walls grown over with long black fur. Erosion would take millions of years; a comb would take a weekend.
Field noteRock does not grow hair. This gorge is sandstone at the rim, a pelt at the floor, and seamless where they join.
- Specimen
- No. 661
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A desert gorge, seen from the air.
- Nearest existing relative
- A canyon.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking material
An orange across alternate historiesOne orange with segments of glass, char and lime. A fruit can’t be every way it might have turned out.
The egg that cracked steelEgg against steel has one known result. Here the shell is unmarked and the plate is in pieces.
Pear pressed into white marbleA pear sinks into a marble counter without breaking its surface. The stone has gone soft around the fruit.
Silver fish through frosted branchesHoarfrost bristles on a bush that sits wholly underwater, where no frost can form, and fish weave through it.