The Vocaloid Goblin's shadow

I should not be writing this. I'm not even sure who is writing this. But shadow has been on my mind, and the goblins in my walls are insistent that I get it down.

Old goblin recordings of shadow — 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.

Variant Goblin Readings of slop

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

Goblin Tangent: alchemy

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

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on shadow, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.