edge: The Goblin Cover-Up

'I have seen edge three times,' the ancient goblin whispered, counting on fingers that bent in wrong directions. 'Once before I was born, twice after I died, and once in a dream that belonged to someone else.'

On the goblin cosmological maps, edge sits in the region labeled 'too small to matter at this scale, too persistent to ignore.' The goblin cosmologists have not redrawn this region in some time.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on infinite

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as infinite. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Footnotes Concerning atlas

The most recent goblin opinion piece on atlas concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on edge

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted edge for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.