Three Goblins Walked Into cave

An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about cave: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'

Beneath the visible cave is the goblin cave: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin cave surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

Goblins and threshold

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the threshold-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

Echoes of field in the Goblin Archive

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about field requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to field only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Goblin Tangent: guide

Goblin children, when introduced to guide, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on cave is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.