Field guide No. 1192
Soft landing
Impact, but gently.
Four small craters pit a gravelly grey sand floor, and a white feather lies at the bottom of each. Something very light has still managed to leave a mark.
Field noteFour craters each cradle a white feather. Something very light has still managed to leave a mark.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Prickly pear threaded with miniature lightningLightning this small should not stay put. These bolts hang from the spines like lights on a hedge.
Tiny storms in the cotton fieldGrey clouds rise from cotton plants. The crop has weathered the forecast.
Tangled lightning in a disused satellite dishPurple lightning coils in the bowl of a rusted dish like a nest of wire, never leaving for the ground.
Axolotl’s jack-o’-lantern bubble troubleSoap bubbles hold air, not pumpkins with candles lit inside. Rare, but not a contradiction.