Field guide No. 583

At sunset on a white salt flat, a brass bed with two cloth sails and runners for feet glides across the crust, tracks behind it. It knows where it's going; the sleeper doesn't.

Sailing bed across the salt flats

Drifting off, properly.

At sunset on a white salt flat, a brass bed with two cloth sails and runners for feet glides across the crust, tracks behind it. It knows where it's going; the sleeper doesn't.

Field noteBeds stay where they are put. This brass one has sails and runners and is under way.

Specimen
No. 583
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Category
Where it doesn’t exist
A salt flat at sunset.
Nearest existing relative
A land yacht.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Objects

Also possible, also breaking category