Other Writing

La Leyenda de Elena Vazquez

The Setup

A.Jay F. Roy The Destined Teller of Tales and licensed real estate agent, sits at the head of the conference table in the cramped break room of Lone Eagle Realty. The overhead fluorescent light flickers intermittently, casting shifting shadows across the faces of three newly licensed agents who've just completed their first week on the job.

One of them, a young woman named Sarah, nervously adjusts her name tag while recounting her first solo open house the...

The Hell County Hotel - Urban Legend

The Setup

A. Jay F. Roy, a local legend himself, leans back in his worn vinyl booth. The same one. Every evening for twenty years at Earl's Diner. The fluorescent light above flickers, casting shifting shadows across his weathered face. He overhears the college students behind him. They’re discussing "Nightmare on Grayson Street."

His gravelly voice cuts through their conversation. A knife through butter.

"You want to hear something scarier than a bunch of...

The Deep Ellum Duo

As told by A Jay F. Roy
-somewhere south of sanity.

You ever been to Deep Ellum? Not the murals. Not the bars. I mean real Deep Ellum. The bones beneath. There’s a legend whispered with rhythm, and they call it...

The Duo

In the late 1970s, Deep Ellum was a rustbucket dressed in neon. Right in its choked heart stood Strikes & Spares Bowling Alley—a place of broken lanes, moldy pretzels, and beer that tasted like betrayal.

The Men Behind the Mirth

There was Walter “Big Walt”...