Field guide No. 1140
Margin of error
Measured to the nearest cliff.
A slab of layered dark rock juts out from a basalt cliff over a wide braided river valley under a pale sky. It is cut square, and appears to be the only part of the landscape with a plan.
Field noteA square-cut slab juts from a basalt cliff over a braided river, the only tidy thing in the valley.
Also possible, also breaking physics
The thaw arrives earlySnow falls while small plants remain uncovered. The thaw arrived before the snow.
Suitcase spills daylight on the night carouselDaylight leaks from a battered suitcase’s seam onto a night-time baggage belt, dust glinting in the beam.
Seven horses across the waterfallHorses need ground; falling water isn’t any. Gravity objects, logic doesn’t.
Inverted thunderstorm in a desert sinkholeStorms gather overhead. This one sits at the bottom of a hole in the desert and rains into itself.