Field guide No. 596

On a pebbly shore under grey skies, an iron anchor rises on its chain into the clouds, leaving a crater in the stones with pebbles still falling up after it. The boat is somewhere above.

The anchor that fell upward

Weighed, and found wanting down.

On a pebbly shore under grey skies, an iron anchor rises on its chain into the clouds, leaving a crater in the stones with pebbles still falling up after it. The boat is somewhere above.

Field noteAnchors sink; that is the job. This one rises on its chain into the clouds, pebbles following.

Specimen
No. 596
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A pebbly shore under grey skies.
Nearest existing relative
An anchor.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Objects

Also possible, also breaking physics