Creature · The showroom and the back of the shop · Proposed
The trolleys
Shopping trolleys left out in a car park after closing, getting on with it.
On the wall the trolleys are always in a car park at dusk, with the store shut. Three stand in a row, each under its own rain cloud. One has moulted, and its old shell stands beside it in amber; it is bigger now and still pulls left. One has snails for wheels and is going nowhere fast.
Which store they belong to the pictures don’t say. The codex proposes that they are like the furniture in the showroom, which moves when nobody is looking, and that the car park is where they go after closing. This entry is proposed by the codex, from pictures on the wall that are all machine-made, and is not canon until approved.
In Make Do: Deep End three trolleys roll up and down the aisles of the stockroom proper, turning at the ends, and wait while you stand in front of them.
The facts
- Kind
- Creature
- World
- The showroom and the back of the shop
- Appears in
- Make Do: Deep End
- In Make Do: Deep End
- Lives in the stockroom, proper
- Status
- Proposed by the codex, waiting for approval
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Three carts under private storms”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Weather that follows one trolley around is very local, though nothing about it contradicts.
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Chrome cart, amber husk”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Moulting is for insects; carts are made, not grown. A category slip with wheels.
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “Shopping cart on snail wheels”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Snails as castors is a design choice, a poor one. Nothing about it contradicts itself.
More pictures
Connections
- left out like the furniture of The showroom
- kept in a car park, like Car park
- rained on by Kept weather
- Post trolley not to be confused with this
- Make Do: Deep End home to this