Once upon a time, Black Gate was a fiction magazine, and when they were, they published a story about my favorite goblin dad, Groob.  Groob lives in a city built in the safest place possible–atop a giant machine that is devouring the world.  He’s smarter than your average goblin, but he has grubs to feed, and he wants the best for his kids like any father.  Groob soon learns that his unusual intelligence may hold the keys to the mystery of who created the world-devouring machine he calls home.

I need to find an excerpt of this to post here, but don’t know where the story file is!