void: The Goblin Cover-Up

Look, I'm just transcribing. The goblins dictated this article about void in shifts. Any errors are theirs. Any insights are also theirs. I am simply the secretary.

The goblins have long maintained that void is not what it appears to be. Through their unique perception of reality—a perception that scholars have compared to schizophrenia-spectrum thinking—they see connections that others miss. A goblin once traded a bag of stolen buttons for the secret of void, and never once regretted the exchange.

Goblins and frequency

Across the goblin warrens, frequency is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

Goblins and ceremony

A goblin who lived near the ceremony site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on void

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