Field guide No. 1642
Vacancy
Checked out early
A tired motel room has a bed, lamp, armchair and chest, but the big mirror on the wall shows an empty room with only carpet. The mirror has already cleared the room for the next guest.
Field noteDresser mirror shows the room with no bed, no chair and no guest in it.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Brick balanced on a dandelion parachuteDandelion fluff carries a seed’s weight; slung between two stalks it now cradles a whole brick.
The colour goes homePigment that runs uphill into its tin offends gravity and drying times. Logic is unbothered.
Dandelion seed suspends a rusted chainA seed that weighs next to nothing holds a ship’s worth of iron off the ground. Wind alone could never manage it.
The stratum takes flightDark birds rise from a striped canyon wall. The strata released their contents.