Field guide No. 1453
Invisible cloth, vivid red reflection
Only red when nobody’s looking.
A clear sheet hangs over a steel tray of black water, and its reflection is a bright red cloth. The water is more confident about it.
Field noteMirrors return what is there. This tray reports a red cloth the room only holds as clear.
- Specimen
- No. 1453
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A whitewashed studio with one tray of standing water.
- Nearest existing relative
- A shop window at night.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
Strawberry seeds hatch tiny frogsSeeds are a plant’s eggs only in a manner of speaking. This strawberry took it literally and frogs came out.
Flying bat, sleeping shadowThe bat flies while its shadow stays asleep on the cave wall. The shadow has stopped being a shadow.
Rooted wires in a rusty junction boxCopper strands sprout roots, so a cable ends as a living plant and a dead conductor at once.
Cinema doorway to the haunted forestA screen shows a place it isn’t. This one is the place, and leaves are blowing in.