Field guide No. 586
Snowfall from a bitten harvest apple
Crisp, in the other sense.
A red apple on a worn green table has one bite out of it, and the flesh inside is packed snow, spilling out in flakes across the paint. Best eaten before it thaws.
Field noteApples are white and crisp inside. This one is packed snow and spills flakes from the bite.
Also possible, also breaking material
Zebra with a loose stripeZebra stripe peels free from the flank and hangs like a loose strap, the hide under it plain white.
Frozen splash across black basaltLava does set in ripples now and then. Rings round a dropped pebble is a neat coincidence.
Paper thin egg beside its twinEggshell flattened without a crack has stopped behaving like eggshell. The twin is a proper egg about it.
Salt keeps scorePawprints in the salt crust are filled with starry black. Whatever walked here took night with it.