Field guide No. 1618

A fish swims over a mossy riverbed with holes in its side, and the missing pieces of its body float off in its bubbles. It is breathing itself out.

Shared breath

Exhaling the spare parts

A fish swims over a mossy riverbed with holes in its side, and the missing pieces of its body float off in its bubbles. It is breathing itself out.

Field noteFish breathe out bubbles, and this one has exhaled pieces of its own flank in them.

Specimen
No. 1618
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A riverbed where a fish blows its scales away
Nearest existing relative
A sea bass
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics