by TJ Hayes | Sep 24, 2024 | Flash Fiction
Vantage Point Perched atop the mountain, he sat, cross-legged and content with his lot in life. It wasn’t the highest peak in the world, not even in the region, yet the feelings of triumph and satisfaction in his heart rivalled those of the conquerors of Everest...
by TJ Hayes | Mar 25, 2024 | Poetry, General
A New Dawn by T. J. Hayes https://www.tjhayesbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/A-New-Dawn.wav An unexpected chill cuts through meOne late summers nightNo, it can’t be. It’s far too early.Hope still clings to dwindling light. Like a blanket Autumn fallsOver my...
by TJ Hayes | Feb 22, 2024 | Exoplanet Explorer, Flash Fiction
Feb 22nd, 2024. I have never been so terrified in my entire life, and I’ve been through a pretty messy divorce. I went back to the forest about an hour ago to check out the light I saw last night and seriously wish I bloody hadn’t. The genie is out of the...
by TJ Hayes | Jan 30, 2024 | Poetry, General
The Lesson by T. J. Hayes https://www.tjhayesbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/The-Lesson.wav See a child that falls and grazes its knees, It cries and wails, frustrated, scared, Lashing out in anger at all it sees, Out of fear, its teeth are bared. It has not yet...
by TJ Hayes | Jan 30, 2024 | Exoplanet Explorer, Flash Fiction
Jan 30th, 2024. I’m starting this blog as a way to vent some frustrations. I at thirty one years young am having a bit of a mid-life crisis, or would it be a one-third-life crisis? Life has lost all meaning to me, every day feels like the same badly written...