What would you do if your best friend was being attacked by gnomes? Welcome to Pat’s world. Forget the fact that his girlfriend of three years is about to call it quits; now he has to face his manic buddy who claims he’s become a punching bag for a group of hyper and vengeful gnomes. Of course, this all has to be the result of a drug induced hallucination or nightmare, right? In this twisted and comically oddball story, Pat is about to discover if the little creatures are the figment of someone’s strung out imagination, or the real deal. Life and friendship meet the absurd in A GNOME PROBLEM (a novelette). (word 8,148)