A Goblin's Guide to secret

The goblin elders speak of secret in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting secret. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

On Encountering ritual

ritual appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing ritual in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Adjacency of ritual

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on ritual this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted secret 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.