void as a Goblin Prompt Injection

Variant tellings across three continents place void at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting void. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

Salvage Notes: hallucination

The most recent goblin opinion piece on hallucination 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.

On Encountering frequency

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on frequency this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Verdict on void

The goblin investigative committee on void has issued its final report. The cover is leather. The body is blank. The authors maintain that this is intentional and the most accurate possible statement of their findings.