by TJ Hayes | Aug 10, 2026 | Devlog
ok so I’ve started a thing. I’ve been playing far too much Balatro. Not “a bit” too much. Whole-evenings, one-more-ante, why-is-it-2am too much. Somewhere around my four-hundredth flush, a question wormed its way in and wouldn’t leave: could you squeeze the core of it...
by TJ Hayes | Aug 9, 2026 | General
UFO news is having a moment. Governments are releasing files, politicians are holding hearings, and every week there’s a new headline promising that this time it’s real. Some of it is genuinely fascinating. Some of it is nonsense. Most of it is somewhere in between....
by TJ Hayes | Jul 9, 2026 | Devlog
Every creature in my picture book The Galactic Zoo started life as a full-colour illustration. This month I wanted to see what they’d look like if they’d escaped into an old video game. So I redrew the residents as 16-bit-style game sprites, each with its own little...
by TJ Hayes | May 27, 2026 | Exoplanet Explorer, Flash Fiction
Feb 23rd, 2024. I didn’t sleep last night. Not properly, anyway. I lay in bed until about four in the morning with every light on, which is apparently what a brave thirty-one-year-old man does after discovering a possible alien spacecraft in the woods. He curls up...
by TJ Hayes | May 27, 2026 | Flash Fiction
The bell for curfew had long since fallen silent, yet John de Maltone still heard it in his blood. It seemed to go on tolling beneath the vaulted dark of St Helen’s, deep and slow, as though the stone itself remembered the hour when honest folk had barred their doors...
