Roger Ley

  One of my newest stories published FREE on 'Tall Tale TV'. Great thanks to Chris Herron  for his excellent narration of the story. Here's an extract: 'The machine intelligence at the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at Caltech in Pasadena spotted ‘the object’ as it passed the orbit of Pluto. CNEOS calculated that it would travel harmlessly through the Solar System, never posing a threat to Earth, but flagged it because of its unusual trajectory. ‘It appears to have come from the Draco Dwarf Galaxy, more than 200,000 light years away,’ it reported to its counterpart at NASA.' More TTTV Stories by Roger Ley at:  https://talltaletv.com/tag/roger-ley/ His Amazon author page is at: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Roger-Ley/author/B01KOVZFHM https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Roger-Ley/author/B01KOVZFHM

  I was inspired to write 'Nighthawks’ by the Rodgers and Hart song ‘Where or When’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbnA78ravpY  and the Edward Hopper painting ‘Nighthawks’. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks_(Hopper) I've tried to evoke a 1930s feel but set in a futuristic situation. A nice trick if you can pull it off. The story is the last on the list you'll find on this link:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLporsubtnxtShv0lct6sHIgvhNNTgCDEw Great thanks to Chris Herron of Tall Tale TV for his excellent narration of the story.

Another FREE story posted on Tall Tale TV and narrated by the most excellent Chris Herron. It lasts about 15 minutes. I'd appreciate a comment if you enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yeme-aXNK6M...

I met Helen Federer at Peasenhall Literary Festival. Helen was a really funny speaker (as you'd expect) and I can recommend Peasenhall Festival as a go to event. Put it on your calendars for next year.  

Ronnie Malina, one of my  readers from Texas, made this anime summary of my book 'The Muslim Prince'. He's added it to his other book summaries on his 'Boundless Volumes' page The book is a respectful alternate history of  the British Royal Family if Princess Diana had not suffered the accident in Paris.   Link to the anime on TikTok Link to Boundless Volumes on TikTok

  Tall Tale TV has just published my latest short story. The link below takes you there and there's no pay wall, the stories are all free. Chris Herron TTTV has published quite a few of my short stories and he always does a fine job of narrating them. https://talltaletv.com/requiem/

  FREE to download 22nd to 24th Aug 2025 Fifty years ago this month I was working as a mechanic at an oil terminal on the coast of Libya. As I was walking from one maintenance job to another I looked out to sea and saw that the ship that worked in the bay on which the divers lived, had exploded. There was a huge mushroom cloud above the Francis Holmes. Six men were killed in that explosion and many more badly burned. I still think about the accident to this day. To honour the men who died, most of whom were Maltese, I offer my book 'A Horse in the Morning' free to download for a few days. 'A Horse in the Morning' is the memoir of an engineer, teacher, actor, writer and failed astronaut. The stories are funny, dramatic, sometimes mysterious, and told with quirky British understatement. I'd be grateful for a review if you enjoy the stories. This is a previous review: 'Roger Ley's collection of memoirs is like a series of short stories, all self-contained, as i...