Field guide No. 1212
The curtain's missing half
Half drawn, half dark.
In a pale bedroom with a tall window, one pink curtain hangs normally while the other is pink at the top and solid black below. Only one of them has been asked to keep the light out.
Field noteOne curtain pink throughout, one pink then black below. Dye stops somewhere; here it stops at a precise line.
Also possible, also breaking material
The fox’s snowy paper trailFootprints are marks pressed into snow. These are folded paper standing on it.
Rain sifted confetti from woolWet wool drips water. This blanket rains paper triangles instead, red and blue, all over the lawn.
Static spills onto purple carpetA television pours its static onto the carpet in grainy heaps. The signal went out the front.
Black breath bubbles in a white desertMud pots bubble in grey; these keep their round shape dry, black and stacked in a heap.