Field guide No. 325
Thunderstorms in the spare bulbs
Bright ideas, bad weather.
A drawer of old light bulbs, three of them holding tiny purple thunderstorms. They are not technically working.
Field noteA thunderstorm is miles wide. A thunderstorm the size of a bulb is a smaller thing than itself.
- Specimen
- No. 325
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A junk drawer in a workshop.
- Nearest existing relative
- A plasma ball.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Chance of showersWeather small enough for a boot has stopped being a storm. The boot insists otherwise.
Knight pastureA valley that fits inside a chess piece has lost the main thing valleys do.
Marbleous surfA rideable swell takes an ocean behind it. The marble supplies about a thimble.
Pocket weather bureauA hurricane is weather on the scale of a coastline. One small enough for a waistcoat is not a hurricane.