The Goblin Mirror Shows You echo

'You have to ask echo the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that echo is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of ritual

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on ritual: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of catalog

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to catalog. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

The annual Goblin Symposium on echo adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.