Field guide No. 476

Underwater on a pebbly riverbed, a stack of logs burns with ordinary orange flames, bubbles rising past them. Nobody has told it.

Still burning beneath the water

Campfire, submerged.

Underwater on a pebbly riverbed, a stack of logs burns with ordinary orange flames, bubbles rising past them. Nobody has told it.

Field noteWater puts out fires, as its main use. This one burns steadily at the bottom of a river.

Specimen
No. 476
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A clear riverbed, a metre down.
Nearest existing relative
A campfire.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics