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Under the floorboards of an old department store live the nomes, tiny people for whom things like Outside and Sun and Rain are just daft old legends. Then a group of new nomes arrive from the Outside that nobody believes in, bringing with them The Thing. The Thing eats electricity. It listens to electricity, too. And right now the electricity is telling it that the store is about to be closed down.—Paul Andinach <pandinac@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>

Masklin is a four inch high Gnome, who along with his family, lives in the wilderness of the outside world and struggles for survival. Masklin and his family embark on an adventure when Masklin and his family stowaway on-board a truck, the truck transports them to a superstore, Arnold Bros. (Est. 1905) where Masklin and his family discover a colony of Gnomes living within the floorboards of the superstore. The Gnomes have never been outside and they believe Outside, Rain, and Sun are legends and nothing exists outside the superstore. Masklin and his family have in their possession, a black box called "The Thing" which has the ability to communicate with electricity and it spells bad news for the Gnomes and tells them that the superstore is going to close down.—Daniel Williamson