Terminally Online Goblins on shadow

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about shadow and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

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

digital as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about digital. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of bibliography

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as bibliography. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted shadow 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.