Leaves on duty

Autumn leaves on the wall doing the job of something else.

A concrete dam holds back a whole valley of red fallen leaves instead of water, and the overflow pours down the spillway as leaves. The turbines must be very quiet. — “The dam of fallen leaves”, Fresh slop

On the wall the fallen leaves have been given work. A concrete dam holds back a whole valley of red leaves and lets them over the spillway; a football goal is filled by a hanging wall of them; a rusted anchor’s chain turns into a chain of them up into the trees; two fire extinguishers, one in a loading bay and one in an overgrown glasshouse, spray them instead of foam.

Autumn is a season with too many leaves and not enough for them to do, and that these have found jobs. Like everything on the wall, the pictures are machine-made.

The facts

Kind: Concept
World: Outside
Canon since: 2026-10-20
On record since: 20 October 2026 (a real date: the day it was first added to the codex)
In Meinong’s jungle: “The dam of fallen leaves”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Leaves pile and drift like a slow liquid. Impounding a valley of them behind concrete is only engineering.
In Meinong’s jungle: “Fire extinguisher sprays autumn leaves”: Possible, the golden mountain kind. Pull the pin on this one and October comes out, at pressure, all over a loading bay.