Field guide No. 1379

A plain of red earth is dotted with shallow hollows, each holding a broken white eggshell. Every pebble seems to have hatched and wandered off.

Tender gravel

Hatching season for stones

A plain of red earth is dotted with shallow hollows, each holding a broken white eggshell. Every pebble seems to have hatched and wandered off.

Field noteEggshell halves sit in hundreds of small dimples across red earth, as if the gravel itself had hatched.

Specimen
No. 1379
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Category
Where it doesn’t exist
a red dirt flat pocked with empty nests
Nearest existing relative
a turtle nesting beach
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking category