The Goblin Hallucination of static

A particular hum precedes static in goblin perception — a frequency the goblin ear is tuned for and the human ear has agreed to ignore.

Beneath the visible static is the goblin static: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin static surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

Marginalia: shadow

The most recent goblin opinion piece on shadow concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

Goblin Reports From the alchemy Frontier

The annual goblin alchemy 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 static

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted static for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.