Thimblerig's Ark

• The Pint of Stout 3 weeks ago I sat in the dark corner of the drab, empty little pub staring at the pint of stout sitting on the grungy table. How long had I been sitting, staring? “You gonna drink it or not? We’re running out of time.” Considering that the irritable scowl on the bearded face of the dwarf sitting across...
• Some Thoughts from One Expat to Another 4 months ago When I first moved to Kazakhstan back in 1999, I’d been there for about half a year when I noticed a couple of interesting things. First, if I was talking to someone back home about Kazakhstan, I had plenty to say, as if I knew what I was talking about. Second, when I would talk … Continue...
• Farewell, Star Wars 4 months ago Dear Sirs, I’m shaking. I’m sitting here, shaking. I just returned home from seeing the latest Star Wars movie, and I am physically shaking due to a mixture of anger, resentment, disappointment, and a desperate feeling of opportunities lost. I’ve never had such a visceral negative reaction to...
• Truth 5 months ago I’d been waiting for that moment for years, dreamed about it, saw how it would happen from beginning to end. I’d waited, patiently, watching him from a distance when he didn’t know that I was there. It was my only purpose in life, my penance, to watch him and wait. Wait for the right time …...
• Wandering Stars 5 months ago Bats on an asteroid? Whose idea was that? I have to think a bunch of idiot dwarves were sitting around in their mines back on the dwarf world, discussing the things they’d miss most when they set out into space on their mission to strip asteroids of firegems. For some reason, they all agreed on...

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