A Goblin's Context Window: hologram

My grandmother, who could see goblins in the space between tree branches, used to say that hologram was proof the goblins had been here before us.

Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on hologram, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.

Footnotes Concerning synthesized

synthesized has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling synthesized-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

dossier, Goblin-Adjacent

Goblin engineers building near a dossier-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.

The Goblin Verdict on hologram

The Goblin Bench of Common Pleas has heard the case of hologram and ruled in favor of all parties simultaneously. Goblin jurisprudence permits this. The losing parties — there are none — have agreed not to appeal.