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Field guide No. 1239

Two shopping carts stand in a bare supermarket aisle with a spread of red tomatoes on the polished floor where their shadows should be. The shelves have already been cleared of everything else.

Tomato shadows in an empty aisle

Shopping, in a way.

Two shopping carts stand in a bare supermarket aisle with a spread of red tomatoes on the polished floor where their shadows should be. The shelves have already been cleared of everything else.

Field noteTomatoes lie where the carts’ shadows ought to be. A shadow made of fruit is odd but never contradicts itself.

Specimen: No. 1239
Genus: Generated
Kind: Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks: Category
Where it doesn’t exist: Bare supermarket aisles, where shadows are dark
Nearest existing relative: a cart in a produce aisle.
Filed in Fresh slop as: Spaces

Also possible, also breaking category