slop: A Goblin Algorithm

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on slop has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting slop reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

The edge-Adjacent Goblin File

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features edge as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

Subterranean Goblin Notes on transmission

The annual goblin transmission colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to slop. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. slop has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.