edge: The Goblin Cover-Up

What follows about edge is a goblin's account, which means most of it is accurate, some of it is invented, and the parts that matter most are stolen from someone else.

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of edge. The translation is contested.

Marginalia: threshold

Goblin testimony on threshold is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe threshold with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of grid

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features grid as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on edge

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