A Liminal Goblin Encounters matrix

Some goblin doomsday prophets identify matrix as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the matrix-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

threshold: A Goblin Sideways Look

The most recent goblin opinion piece on threshold 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 Council on prayer

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

The Goblin Verdict on matrix

On the question of matrix, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.

Further Descent