Field guide No. 1043
Stone swimmer
A fish keeps swimming in stone
A silver fish is embedded in a dark slab of rock on a workbench. The quarry has retained its last swimmer.
Field noteA silver fish is embedded in solid rock. The quarry kept its last swimmer.
- Specimen
- No. 1043
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A dark stone slab on a workbench.
- Nearest existing relative
- A silver fish.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking material
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The telephone booth’s fractured airCracks from the booth’s broken panes run on into the open sky, splintering the air like a windowpane.
An orange across alternate historiesOne orange with segments of glass, char and lime. A fruit can’t be every way it might have turned out.
Taut rope, wrinkled airHung from a rope like washing, a patch of air creases, drapes and casts a shadow it has no surface for.