Following Eyes: Jack-o-Lantern

Somebody reaches for the candy bowl. The pumpkin's eyes slide over, find them, and hold. The mouth gives a startled little "ooh" — and then it just watches. They freeze. They lean sideways to test it. It follows. That is the whole app, and it works every time. CARVE ONE FIRST Before you set it out, make it yours. Pull the eyes into a mean squint or a friendly gawp. Give it one enormous fang, or a mouthful of small ones, or no teeth at all. Bow the mouth into a grin or a scowl. Squash the gourd short and fat, or stretch it tall and sickly. Light the candle inside a warm orange, a swamp green, or a cold dead blue. Then name it, save it, and carve another. Keep the whole patch and swap between them whenever you like. Five are ready-carved if you would rather not start from nothing — a classic, a tall one, a friendly grin, a snagged fang, and a heavy brute. Copy any of them and make it…