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 | Mar 25, 2024 | Poetry, General
A New Dawn – Poetry 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...
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 | Poetry, General
The Lesson – Poetry 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...
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...
by TJ Hayes | Jan 16, 2024 | Poetry, General
From Darkness Comes Light – Poetry From Darkness, Comes Light. by Taylor J Hayes https://www.tjhayesbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/From-Darkness-Comes-Light.mp3 Take a look around you, See the heartache and the pain The world is full of anger, The world...
by TJ Hayes | Jan 5, 2024 | Flash Fiction
The Ancient One – Flash Fiction The Ancient One by Taylor J Hayes https://www.tjhayesbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/The-Ancient-One.mp3 Many a cycle I have seen in rotation. I have borne witness to the beginning and inevitable fall of many an empire. I...
by TJ Hayes | Sep 8, 2023 | General
The Self-Publishing Adventure: Starting my Journey with Amazons KDP Service Becoming a published author has always been a dream of mine, and that dream recently became a reality thanks to Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) service. In this article,...
