Field guide No. 558
Home advantage
Kept close to the heart.
An open gold locket on a polished dressing table holds a floodlit stadium mid-match, the crowd on its feet in the stands. The other half of the locket is empty, waiting for a second fixture.
Field noteA floodlit stadium and its crowd cannot fit in a locket. This one holds the match in full.
- Specimen
- No. 558
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A polished dressing table.
- Nearest existing relative
- A locket.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Owl in the last dandelionDandelion clocks are thumb-sized; owls aren’t. Here the seed head is both small and a nest.
Forest in the door’s edgeDoor edge, a couple of inches thick, holds a strip of pine forest.
Space to soakGalaxies run to a hundred thousand light years. The tub runs to about five feet.
Pearl of the nightPearls are small and grow in oysters. The moon is neither, yet here it is, being both.