Marlon Hayes

Only Us... (A series) Being Friendly The imminent arrival of Hurricane Dorian on the Southeast coast of the U.S. has been something we’ve...

Yesterday evening as I sat in my basement writing, I received a text from my Mama. "The book is in the mailbox."  I yelled upstairs at my...

This morning I wanted to heat up two slices of pizza for breakfast. I work the night shift, so don't judge me. My initial thought was to...

The Wasted Day I often lament there just aren’t enough hours in the day to do all the things I want to, nor enough time to see the...

As a little boy, I often spent Sunday mornings as my grandmother Lee Ellen's "clicker," if she had misplaced it. I'd crawl in the bed...

At some point in our adult lives, hopefully we have kissed a stranger, someone we'd only just met, and more often than not, someone we...

I'm Down with ZPP (Zombie Pirates Publishing) Somehow, without me realizing it, I've turned into what most would call “a writer's...

Life is a funny, tragic tale (oxymoron!), where something small and seemingly unimportant can shape and affect more lives than one can...

A Writer's Life for Me… 4:50 A.M. and I was startled out of my sleep with an idea for the conclusion of a story I've been working on,...

When I was in sixth grade, I traded a book for a comic book. The novel was 'Pimp; the Story of My Life' by Iceberg Slim. If your eyes...