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Roobala Take Me Home
During a seemingly routine tuba repossession, Jesse Enoob’s life as a WACOFF Corporation Repo man takes a comical turn, sending him searching for love and chasing Roobalas – the galactic currency crucial for survival. From bar and grill spaceships to sexually charged aliens, the story unfolds with incisive humor, romance, and absurdity.
In a desperate search for love and Roobalas, Jesse is consumed by heroic delusions, ancestral myths, and the origins of his inverted name. Brace yourself for unconventional unions as this satirical space odyssey blurs the boundaries between mystery, romance, sex, and adventure. Will Jesse Enoob find his lost love, or be forever chasing the elusive Roobala?
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“Many moments are beautiful, witty, and surprising, and the entire work is permeated with a curious nostalgia that I found very touching.” – Eric D, editor at Charles Scribner’s Sons.
“Roobala Take Me Home is vivid and exciting, full of weird humor and cosmic nostalgia…a galactic Wild West and the hero himself, Jesse Enoob, hunts through stellar wilderness, and gives this space fantasy its special flavor. Immensely entertaining. The American myth of discovery is put on a galactic scale. Fast-moving and picaresque.” – Ingomar R, Fulbright Scholar.
In a desperate search for love and Roobalas, Jesse is consumed by heroic delusions, ancestral myths, and the origins of his inverted name. Brace yourself for unconventional unions as this satirical space odyssey blurs the boundaries between mystery, romance, sex, and adventure. Will Jesse Enoob find his lost love, or be forever chasing the elusive Roobala?
∞
“Many moments are beautiful, witty, and surprising, and the entire work is permeated with a curious nostalgia that I found very touching.” – Eric D, editor at Charles Scribner’s Sons.
“Roobala Take Me Home is vivid and exciting, full of weird humor and cosmic nostalgia…a galactic Wild West and the hero himself, Jesse Enoob, hunts through stellar wilderness, and gives this space fantasy its special flavor. Immensely entertaining. The American myth of discovery is put on a galactic scale. Fast-moving and picaresque.” – Ingomar R, Fulbright Scholar.
498 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 13, 2012
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Jeffrey Penn May
9 books35 followersLandmark Prize Finalist MARGERY
“As I hiked further into the woods, deeper than I’d ever gone before, I noticed darkness not only surrounding me from the thick canopy of hardwood trees, their leaves abnormally large, but also felt a heaviness in my heart, a tightness in my chest that was counter to all my previous experiences hiking into the wilderness.”
And so begins Jeremy’s unusual and gripping personal journey, a backpacker wandering off the main trail, exploring where more reasonable people usually turn away. Hiking through dense undergrowth and crossing a stream, he’s surprised to find a young couple camping far from the trail. He is keenly aware of their vitality compared to his age and experience. He follows the couple to a strange, otherworldly town nestled in a mountain basin where the people are intriguing and outgoing, and a little odd, especially Margery.
Befuddled yet captivated, Jeremy comes to love his new friends who, unlike him, seem content in what remains of their lives – the young couple, a reticent doctor and his unusual wife, hikers of various ages trekking along the surrounding slopes. He observes a psilocybin trip-treatment for the young woman, and he falls for Margery. But he is confused by Margery’s contradictory behavior and the hint of an inner struggle.
Margery is courageous, embracing what life has given her as displayed not only by her daring interaction with nature, but also by her enigmatic purpose.
What can Jeremy learn from her? His effort to make sense of the craziness is occasionally misguided and humorous, but also full of affection, admiration, and hope.
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Jeffrey Penn May has won several fiction awards, including one from Writer’s Digest. He has received a Pushcart nomination and was a Landmark Prize finalist. Jeff wrote and performed a short story for radio and was a board member and consultant to a St. Louis theatre company.
Among other occupations, Jeff has been a hotel security officer, credit manager, deckhand, technical data engineer, and creative writing instructor. Jeff adventures include, floating a home-built raft from St. Louis to Memphis, navigating a John boat to New Orleans, digging for Pre-Columbian artifacts, and climbing mountains from Alaska to South America. For more information about Jeff’s world and works, visit www.askwritefish.com.
“As I hiked further into the woods, deeper than I’d ever gone before, I noticed darkness not only surrounding me from the thick canopy of hardwood trees, their leaves abnormally large, but also felt a heaviness in my heart, a tightness in my chest that was counter to all my previous experiences hiking into the wilderness.”
And so begins Jeremy’s unusual and gripping personal journey, a backpacker wandering off the main trail, exploring where more reasonable people usually turn away. Hiking through dense undergrowth and crossing a stream, he’s surprised to find a young couple camping far from the trail. He is keenly aware of their vitality compared to his age and experience. He follows the couple to a strange, otherworldly town nestled in a mountain basin where the people are intriguing and outgoing, and a little odd, especially Margery.
Befuddled yet captivated, Jeremy comes to love his new friends who, unlike him, seem content in what remains of their lives – the young couple, a reticent doctor and his unusual wife, hikers of various ages trekking along the surrounding slopes. He observes a psilocybin trip-treatment for the young woman, and he falls for Margery. But he is confused by Margery’s contradictory behavior and the hint of an inner struggle.
Margery is courageous, embracing what life has given her as displayed not only by her daring interaction with nature, but also by her enigmatic purpose.
What can Jeremy learn from her? His effort to make sense of the craziness is occasionally misguided and humorous, but also full of affection, admiration, and hope.
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Jeffrey Penn May has won several fiction awards, including one from Writer’s Digest. He has received a Pushcart nomination and was a Landmark Prize finalist. Jeff wrote and performed a short story for radio and was a board member and consultant to a St. Louis theatre company.
Among other occupations, Jeff has been a hotel security officer, credit manager, deckhand, technical data engineer, and creative writing instructor. Jeff adventures include, floating a home-built raft from St. Louis to Memphis, navigating a John boat to New Orleans, digging for Pre-Columbian artifacts, and climbing mountains from Alaska to South America. For more information about Jeff’s world and works, visit www.askwritefish.com.
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January 17, 2024
Publishers and agents have said that “Roobala” is “beautiful, witty, and surprising” full of “vivid imagination and beguiling moments” and with the deepest sincerity, “You’re crazy.”
An insane, satiric, humorous, romantic romp through a galaxy full of sexually hyped aliens, bar and grill spaceships, great white horned beasts drinking gold mist, fish transmogrified to match the lust of lost space explorers, and more!
Pioneers from a dying Earth are perpetually hurling into the future, away from home, searching for enough “Roobalas” – the red galactic currency – to go backwards, to go home.
Space explorers for the WACOFF Corporation careen through the galaxy on a comic odyssey of self-discovery, disillusionment and survival. Come along and explore ROOBALA TAKE ME HOME and its surprising pathways into inner and outer space.
Initially written before “Star Wars,” ROOBALA clearly embraces the era’s zeitgeist; however, ROOBALA shreds through the good versus evil underpinning of “Star Wars” and romps through space confronting complex conundrums of human existence. ROOBALA TAKE ME HOME is a grand comedic novel applying western themes to a futuristic Earth and space frontier, full of romance, sex, adventure, mystery, literary and cultural allusions, and financial crisis. ROOBALA vaults readers caroming through space and plot using its own curiously warped narrative drive.
An insane, satiric, humorous, romantic romp through a galaxy full of sexually hyped aliens, bar and grill spaceships, great white horned beasts drinking gold mist, fish transmogrified to match the lust of lost space explorers, and more!
Pioneers from a dying Earth are perpetually hurling into the future, away from home, searching for enough “Roobalas” – the red galactic currency – to go backwards, to go home.
Space explorers for the WACOFF Corporation careen through the galaxy on a comic odyssey of self-discovery, disillusionment and survival. Come along and explore ROOBALA TAKE ME HOME and its surprising pathways into inner and outer space.
Initially written before “Star Wars,” ROOBALA clearly embraces the era’s zeitgeist; however, ROOBALA shreds through the good versus evil underpinning of “Star Wars” and romps through space confronting complex conundrums of human existence. ROOBALA TAKE ME HOME is a grand comedic novel applying western themes to a futuristic Earth and space frontier, full of romance, sex, adventure, mystery, literary and cultural allusions, and financial crisis. ROOBALA vaults readers caroming through space and plot using its own curiously warped narrative drive.
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