by TJ Hayes | Feb 2, 2026 | Flash Fiction, Poetry
A Life Not Measured Week One Calvin Drake woke to birdsong and the smell of wet earth. Real birds. Real earth. It was incredibly disorienting. Green light filtered through a humid canopy. His body ached as if gravity had thickened during his sleep. His breath...
by TJ Hayes | Feb 12, 2025 | Flash Fiction, Poetry
Red pill or blue? Brother, I chugged down the whole damn bottle, consequences be damned and now my world, my life, my soul exist in some swirling, whirling topsy turvy, state of perpetual purpleness. Is it all some dream, some nightmare? A prison for unruly...
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 | Feb 22, 2024 | Exoplanet Explorer, Flash Fiction
Blog Entry 2 – The Exoplanet Explorer 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...
by TJ Hayes | Jan 30, 2024 | Exoplanet Explorer, Flash Fiction
Blog Entry 1 – The Exoplanet Explorer 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,...
by TJ Hayes | Jan 30, 2024 | Flash Fiction
Dante – Featured on BBC Radio Upload Dante - As Featured on BBC Radio Upload by Taylor J Hayes https://www.tjhayesbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Dante-BBC-Radio-Upload.mp3 He was there again. Maybe I should ask him to start helping with the rent. If he’s...
