Hotter than a bath, saltier than the sea, and out of oxygen by teatime. Here are seventeen.
1. It Is the Most Hostile Habitat on the Shore
The instinctive reading…
It is not lost and it did not come in from the fields. Here are fifteen.
1. It Did Not Come In From the Countryside
The standing assumption is that…
They ignore you all summer, then the colony finishes and they are out of work. Here are fifteen.
1. They Spend the Summer Hunting, Not Scavenging
For most of the…
The spots are the species, not the age, and it bleeds from its knees on purpose. Here are twelve.
1. The Spots Are the Species, Not the Age
This is…
It is not where the rain fell, it is where the water could not leave. Here are eleven.
1. It Marks a Low Point, Not a Wet Spot
Water standing…
The first thing to abandon is the picture of a knot gradually working its way loose over the course of a walk, getting a little slacker with every step until…