Halloweenie: Jack

Jack's story is a sad one.

One day, many many years ago, a wizard decided he would make himself a son. He made a golem of rags with a pumpkin's head and over the years the golem learned how to be human, though it was far from being one. He learned freedom and was given free will with one exception. He could not cross the gate of the iron fence that surrounded the wizard's house. If he did, he would die.

And so one day the wizard left him at home and never came back. Perhaps someone knew why, but Jack Lantern did not. He was convinced the wizard had simply gone to buy food and would return. So he waited, day after day, on the front porch of the old house only moving occasionally. Eventually people forgot about wizards and their creations and forgot that Jack was a living thing altogether.

He was dubbed Jack Lantern of the Vacant House.