What the Goblin Vivisected Found in prophecy

Goblin mystics maintain that prophecy arrives at the same moment in every reality, and that the small differences in how it arrives are the most important thing about it.

Old goblin recordings of prophecy — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

The Goblin Council on ghost

A goblin cartographer working on the ghost region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

Marginalia: liturgy

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

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

Goblin peer review of the prophecy hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.