Paranoid Goblins and the Truth About silence

Variant tellings across three continents place silence at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the silence-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

Goblin Tangent: ghost

The connection between goblins and ghost is undeniable. Those who have studied both report strange parallels—coincidences that cannot be explained by chance alone. Some say that ghost is simply a modern expression of ancient goblin trickery.

Goblins and frequency

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

The Goblin Verdict on silence

The annual Goblin Symposium on silence adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.