Field guide No. 1489
Sleeping ginger cat’s inner staircase
Mind the step.
A ginger cat yawns on a dark stairwell, and down its open mouth runs another flight of stairs. Every cat is bigger on the inside.
Field noteGinger fur holds a full flight of stairs inside the mouth, taller than the cat around it.
- Specimen
- No. 1489
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A dark wooden stairwell on the landing.
- Nearest existing relative
- A tabby yawning.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Tin can opens the floorRing pulls peel back a strip of shop floor as the can’s lid, the tiles curling up like thin tin.
Knight pastureA valley that fits inside a chess piece has lost the main thing valleys do.
The listening dunesA horn holds sound, not the universe it is playing. This one holds both, which is too much.
Magnets stretch a luminous galaxyA galaxy is the largest thing on any bench. This one fits between two magnets, so it’s huge and handheld.