Field guide No. 1491

A slug crosses a wet wooden step, its trail behind it cracked like dried mud. It is the only dry thing for miles.

Slug’s cracked trail on wet steps

Slime, sun-dried.

A slug crosses a wet wooden step, its trail behind it cracked like dried mud. It is the only dry thing for miles.

Field noteSlug trails do dry and crack, just not on wet wood seconds after the slug.

Specimen
No. 1491
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
Wet wooden garden steps after rain.
Nearest existing relative
A garden slug.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics