Rancidness

 Rock had successfully induced each Little Rock Hash House Harrier to drink rancid motor oil drilled by the former U.S. president Donald Trump. He was concerned but not quite sure what rancidness meant.

A wooden twig

 As Rock stood in line at an apparently immensely popular buffet, a pleasant but not particularly pretty nurse struck up a conversation. Shortly after it began, she said, "Hold still for a minute. You have something in your left ear." Rock paused as the nurse extracted the thing she had noticed. When she showed it to him, he was stunned. It was a wooden twig, perhaps three inches long with multiple tiny branches. Before he said anything to the nurse, the twig quickly blossomed into an ornate white flower. Moments later, with no further thought, Rock swam back to his car in an uphill swimming pool, twenty feet wide and a quarter-mile long. Gravity did not affect the water, which did not seem odd to Rock.

Longshot

 There was an intense fear among the hundreds of people that there was no escape from the unrelenting roar of television infomercials in Rock's house. Furthermore, it had become difficult for anyone to breathe. Rock also experienced balance issues. None of this seemed survivable to anyone, until Rock found a lubricated funnel he thought might provide a route out. It was an extreme longshot, certainly, but he slid through it until it deposited him into his silent living room/den.