The Goblin Who Stole silence

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

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past silence rather than at it, on the theory that silence reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

On Encountering cave

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about cave requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to cave only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

diary, Goblin-Adjacent

diary pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

The goblin investigative committee on silence has issued its final report. The cover is leather. The body is blank. The authors maintain that this is intentional and the most accurate possible statement of their findings.