Thimblerig's Ark

• Some Thoughts from One Expat to Another 2 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 3 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 4 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 3 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...
• Lies 5 months ago   The sound of her keys jangling sets off an eruption on the other side of the door. It always does, and so she always jangles them a bit louder than necessary to help prime the eruption. Today is no different, and they’re all there when she opens the door, bursting to welcome her home. …...

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