Anne Howe
Anne Howe: The Sleeping Fountain, original fiction
A short original fiction. An imagined Anne stops by a courtyard fountain just as its pump goes quiet, and the water settles into something else.
When the pump stops
In this fiction Anne comes into a small courtyard just as the fountain pump cuts out. The last thread of water drops back into the basin.
The imagined Anne waits beside it. Small rings overlap and travel out to the stone rim, then turn back toward the middle.
Another surface
The surface settles. Where broken, moving light had been, a square of sky appears.
She stays outside the basin and lets the water lie still. In this invented courtyard the fountain offers a reflection once its sound has ended.