Field guide No. 1161
Peeling moonlight on dark wood
Moonlight, curling at the edges.
Sheets of clear light lie across a dark wooden floor, lifting at the corners, beneath a window with a full moon in it. Housekeeping will want to paint over that.
Field noteSheets of clear light lie across the floor, lifting at the corners beneath a full moon.
Also possible, also breaking material
Snakes emerge from the woodgrainWoodgrain lifts off the boards as snakes. Patterns in planks are not meant to have heads.
The curtain's missing halfOne curtain pink throughout, one pink then black below. Dye stops somewhere; here it stops at a precise line.
Frayed copper lightning over a prairieLightning is a channel of hot air, but this bolt snapped in two and shows bare copper strands.
Wax transformer substation at midnightTransformers are steel and oil. Built in wax with lit wicks, they’d melt at the first load.