by Doug Thompson | Sep 18, 2018 | GraveYard
DC Darkside, which went active on the World Wide Web on May 7, 1996. Darkside is an experiment with articles that were published through 2004 and went into archival status when my wife and I left DC after 23 years and moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwestern...
by Doug Thompson | May 6, 2004 | Current Dark, GraveYard
He couldn’t help noticing how the woman at the table across the room kept looking at him. She could have been his age, but better preserved. Where age had ravaged his body and appearance, it had blessed her. Her long and flowing hair, streaked with gray,...
by Doug Thompson | Jan 16, 2004 | GraveYard
She heard the alarm go off at 6:30 a.m., signaling time to get up and go to work. Only she wasn’t asleep. She was still at the computer keyboard, reading another long fictionalized story about Buffy, The Vampire Slayer. “Aw fuck,” she muttered under...
by Doug Thompson | Aug 8, 2003 | GraveYard
It started with a Christmas card. “Thinking of you,” the card said. Talk about a voice from the past. A simple card, nearly 35 years after that day in high school when she dumped him, ending a relationship that had been the first love of his life. Yet not...
by Doug Thompson | Jan 2, 2003 | GraveYard
She noticed him on the first day of school. The eyes caught her attention first – dark, smoldering, haunting. Dark hair, nice tight body. The more she thought about him, the more it affected her. She wanted him. Wanted him badly. At night, she would masturbate...
by Doug Thompson | Feb 4, 2002 | GraveYard
He woke up with his head pounding, hung over from another Friday night of heavy drinking. Not unusual. He met some buddies after work, they started with German beer, moved on to shooters of Tequila. That was the last he remembered. But when he turned over, his wife...
