Field guide No. 226
The last match
Burnt out, built up.
A single spent match stands in a gold-rimmed saucer, its smoke rising and setting into a solid grey cube in mid-air. Some fires go out. This one went geometric.
Field noteSmoke setting solid is chemistry misbehaving. A cube of anything is still a perfectly sound cube.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Pearly teeth in a purple figFruit growing dentition is biology going off-script. Dentists would cope; botanists less so.
Time fliesHourglasses are real and so are butterflies. Neither glows when poured.
The lantern reefPaper and flame both quit at the surface. This lantern did not hear.
A taste of silenceTuning forks do make sugar dance. Hovering in rings is sound promising more than it delivers.