Field guide No. 024
Orbital gardening
Watering on a schedule.
A flowerpot with a single daisy floats inside the coils of a green garden hose, like a planet with its rings.
Field notePots, daisies and hoses are all in stock. The hovering is gravity’s oversight.
Also possible, also breaking physics
The chalk migrationPaper birds fold easily; napkins hold a shape. Flying south is an aerodynamic stretch.
The last unread snowfallBooks describe snow; they don’t usually issue it. The rest of the desk is perfectly ordinary.
The last matchSmoke setting solid is chemistry misbehaving. A cube of anything is still a perfectly sound cube.
Roots above, apples belowTrees could grow upside down if gravity agreed. It doesn’t; logic doesn’t mind.