Field guide No. 473
Slate pages of frozen waves
Light reading for the shore.
On a stormy rocky coast, a block of dark slate has split and fanned open like a book, every leaf carved with a breaking wave. A small camera rover is reading it.
Field noteSlate splits into sheets, which is nearly pages. These carry the sea on them, a wave per leaf.
Also possible, also breaking category
Hermit crab’s pinecone homePinecones aren’t hollow, so this crab is renting a house with no inside.
Avo conservatoryGlasshouses fit in odd places. The pit was the obvious vacancy.
Envelopes blooming in lavender twilightStationery that grows in rows is horticulture miscast. Unprecedented, but not a contradiction.
Black starlings burst from a bowling ballA bowling ball is solid all through. Being a flock as well is a second career.