The Garden Gnome Freedom Front

The Garden Gnome Freedom Front is a fantasy story by Laura Frankos, published in The Enchanter Completed (Baen, 2005). It is set in Normandy, France in September-October 1996, during the time period when the bizarre fad of "roaming/travelling/liberating" garden gnomes, which first became widely reported.

Bored university student Alizon Riand, Raquel Guibert, and Becca Milleron have founded the "Garden Gnome Freedom Front" which seeks to "liberate" decorative statuary from local gardens. They must reevaluate their priorities, after an unusual phase of the Moon transforms their targets into sentient beings with their own strongly held opinions about the group's mission.