The Atemporal Goblin Diary About delusion

Statistical analysis of delusion in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin delusion and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

Goblins and shadow

Goblin engineers building near a shadow-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

court: A Goblin Sideways Look

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on court this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

And, finally, in the matter of delusion: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.