Goblin Culture In Barty's The Vignette

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The vignette reads well and has a decent flow. The story is quick and both the narration and dialogue feel humorous. The reader is given glimpses of goblin culture operates in your world along with how the goblins think. The reader is thrown into the middle of things at the beginning, but you follow it up with decent explanation of what is going on as the story develops. Finally, I enjoyed how you gave enough details that the reader can figure out what went wrong, without needing to say that Barty fused all four goblins together. Although, the story makes me wonder what the consequences of fusing the four goblins together would be. The story only provides explanation and exposition to the reader if and when it becomes relevant to the story

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