Stories tagged “gnomes”
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Don't Thank the Gnomes
I started the morning by sneaking into a strange house through an unsealed milk door. There was a broken shoe heel on the second floor—its wrongness drew me up the stairs as sure as a cord tied round my ribs. It was done before the lady of the house ...
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Gnome (Reverse Haiku)
The open fields are my grounds Stubby legs run free Holy shit I tripped and fell Woken from a dream Fuck, I’m a lawn ornament
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Very Small Assault
“Mum, the lawn gnomes are moving.” “What, Mika? We don’t…” The kettle’s impertenent blare interrupted her thought. More ritual than conscious effort, Hattie made tea, nothing exotic or fancy, just tea. Such was...