The Goblin of slop

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

The relationship between goblins and slop is symbiotic. Goblins give slop attention—the currency of the metaphysical realm. slop gives goblins something to be confusing about. Both benefit. Both are trapped. This is the nature of all goblin relationships.

Goblins and echo

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

The Goblin Adjacency of communion

communion 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 slop

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about slop becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.