I like gnomes. Hence the delight I took in this year’s Halloween costumes.
A number of years ago, I tried several times to incorporate gnomes into stories I was working on for classes. It never worked out.
But, as I never get rid of things I’ve written (you never know), I recently came across a few snippets of what look to be portions of a story about a young, somewhat outcast gnome. They amused me, and so I share them with you here, with a little bit of polishing: