The Head

One crisp autumn day, Jack decided to tidy the home by dusting his wife’s fall decorations, including a pumpkin, affectionately dubbed “The Head” from Sleepy Hollow. He accidentally knocked it off the side table, causing it to crash to the floor and shatter on one side.

Determined to fix his mistake, he grabbed the Crazy Glue and got to work. To his horror, the pumpkin began to melt.

Jack watched in shock as the beloved decoration transformed into a gooey, sticky mess. The glue reacted to the acetate, creating a scene straight out of “The Wizard of Oz” meets “The Thing.”

Trying to salvage the situation, Jack noticed his hands had become a casualty. The glue had adhered to his skin, creating a layer that seemed impossible to remove.

His hands felt like they were morphing into something entirely non-human. Panic set in as he realized his skin was peeling, and he feared the worst– had he started a monstrous transformation?

With his wife taking the pumpkin massacre in stride, Jack spent the next few hours battling the sticky situation. Armed with patience and a bit of fortune, he freed his hands from the adhesive disaster.

Determined to salvage the pumpkin fiasco, a friend suggested turning it into a display with gnomes, so he went to the store and bought a family of them. Returning home, he imagined the scene: a happy, cozy family bringing life to the now mangled pumpkin.

But as he opened his front door, Jack froze, finding the pumpkin occupied. His old, small green army soldiers—relics from his childhood—had taken over, transforming the pumpkin into a military outpost.

The gnome family–newly purchased and bewildered–became relegated to the humble paper bag they came with.  Homeless and out of place, their serene lives turned topsy-turvy by a militant green army.

His wife walked in on the scene, shaking her head, “Only you could turn a glue disaster into a miniature commentary on society.”