Synaesthetic Goblins Taste void

void exists in the space between what is real and what is remembered, and goblins are the only creatures who can live comfortably in that space.

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of void. The translation is contested.

Goblin Recursion Into matrix

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about matrix. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The mill-Adjacent Goblin File

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking mill. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on void

Goblin peer review of the void hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.