by Neil | Apr 23, 2022 | Diary, Grief, Personal
Bridgend, South Wales. 23rd April 2022 Dear Ziggy, Today you are nine. Should be nine. Would have been nine. Tenses are hard. Another year has passed by like a gust of wind and the world seemingly spins further into chaos as the pandemic sputters on, while war creeps...
by Neil | Apr 23, 2021 | Fiction
Lost: A Tale of Draco The Dragon By Neil Beynon For Ziggy on his 8th birthday. “Hello, it’s been a while.” “Gone? Oh, no son, I’m never gone. Sometimes, when the journey is long and hard, we don’t need to talk, it’s enough for us to know we are with you.” “A story? I...
by Neil | Apr 23, 2021 | Personal
Bridgend, South Wales 23rd, April 2021 Dear Ziggy, Another trip around the sun, another year further away from you. You should be 8 today. I don’t have a picture of you in my mind anymore, I’ve tried, it simply won’t come and anything I picture feels badly drawn, a...
by Neil | Sep 11, 2020 | Books, Fantasy, Uncategorized
I am thrilled to announce my next book, The Alaunt, launches on eBook, exclusive to Amazon, on September 18th. This is the second book of The Shaanti, my debut epic fantasy series and focuses on Anya’s grandfather, Thrace, retired legend of the Shaanti, one of the...
by Neil | Apr 23, 2020 | Fiction, free fiction
The Return: A Tale of Draco The Dragon By Neil Beynon For Ziggy on his seventh birthday. Come out here. The sun hasn’t long gone down and the wood is still warm. That smell? It’s a woodfire. Someone is burning something. Hold my hand and…gosh…your hands are so...
