Hypnagogic Goblin Visions of threshold

threshold feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

Three independent goblin whistleblowers have, in the past eighteen months, attempted to publish accounts linking threshold to a specific bureau in the Goblin Department of Concealment. All three accounts disappeared from the internet within hours. Two of the goblins are fine. One has been very quiet.

Goblin Periphery: shadow

Goblin sleep researchers note that shadow appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

Three Goblins Discuss archive

Goblin children, when introduced to archive, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The Goblin Verdict on threshold

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on threshold, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.