Field guide No. 1464
Noonlight trapped behind the fire door
Daylight, kept for emergencies.
A dim hotel corridor ends in a glass fire door packed with bright midday light that barely leaks under it. Nobody has signed it out.
Field noteMidday light is held behind glass like a stored object, while the corridor on this side stays at night.
- Specimen
- No. 1464
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A hotel corridor after the bar has shut.
- Nearest existing relative
- A light box.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking category
The lighthouse’s black ink beamA beam is light by definition. This one is black liquid, splatters and drips, and still comes out of the lamp.
The leaf skeleton crawls awayA leaf skeleton appears to crawl away from its green leaf. The plant has left its old shape behind.
Waves growing from torn kelpKelp lives in the waves, so waves sprouting from kelp puts the sea inside its own seaweed.
A leash tied to the horizonLeads tie to posts and hands. The horizon is neither, and it backs away as you walk toward it.