Four Short Stories set in the Goblin World of Jaq D Hawkins

Nala is about to embark on his first goblin raid. He has passed all of the tests for Those Who Provide and is ready to breach the surface world where staying out of sight of the humans is essential for survival. Surrounded by experienced raiders, Nala has only to play his role and stay near the cavern entrance. But raiding swine herds can be unpredictable...

Karesyk is a runner, a messenger between the goblin grottos. When he carries joyous news throughout the underground network of caverns, the one thing he doesn't expect is to run into a dragon.

Every birth in the goblin world is an occasion for great joy, but when a water goblin births a young one with legs and no gills, how can the infant creature survive in his mother's watery environment?

A man wanders into what was once an entrance to the underground train system, before the cataclysm, but the tunnels have been taken over by goblins. He soon finds himself captive in a world of darkness where strange creatures, speaking an alien language, torment him in ways that are disturbingly unexpected.