Goblin Heist

“You tell the story but nobody ever believes it. Harvest festival is coming up. Hoping to win this year's best apple pie competition with your great grandma's secret recipe. Only just as the apples are almost ripe, it looks as if they've been stolen right off the tree. Kids probably. You almost catch them once or twice. See a small figure sneaking around. But with green skin? Who'd believe that. And on the day of the festival itself, all the entries in the largest vegetable competition have been hollowed out. Filled instead with... fireworks. Juice and pulp everywhere. And a guy at the back of the crowd in a long coat just laughing. Beady eyes and... a fake moustache? Old uncle Joe used to rave about the pests causing mischief in his garden. Maybe he was right? Goblins..."