About Roobala Take Me Home:
“Many moments are beautiful, witty, and surprising, and the entire work is permeated with a curious nostalgia that I found very touching.” – Eric D, former editor at Charles Scribner’s Sons
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?
“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. I’ve found Roobala immensely entertaining. The American myth of discovery is put on a galactic scale and becomes even more obvious in Daniel Boone, the half brain hunter and, of course, William Bailey. If Roobala is space realism too, you managed perfectly to reveal the familiar in the unknown and vice versa. The story is fast-moving and picaresque, leaving out emanations of the characters’ inner space dives, which are nevertheless alive and colorful.” – Ingomar R, Fulbright Scholar
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Author Bio:
Jeffrey Penn May (Jeff May) won several short fiction awards, received a Pushcart Prize nomination, and was a Homebound Publications Landmark Prize finalist. Jeff has published mountain climbing articles, short stories, poems, education articles and technical writing guides. He wrote and performed a short story for Washington University Radio and was a consultant to a St. Louis theatre company.
After earning his a B.A. in English and Psychology, Masters in Secondary English, and a Writer’s Certificate from the University of Missouri, Jeff worked as a waiter, hotel security officer, credit manager, deck hand, technical data engineer, creative writing instructor, and English teacher. He was the principal of a small alternative school where he organized a fund-raising, climbing expedition and appeared in television and radio spotlights.
Born at Fort Ord near Monterey, California, and raised in St. Louis, Jeff comes from a family of all boys and has always been compelled to explore the outdoors, leading to many questionable “vacations.” His adventures include, but are not limited to the following: floated a home-built wood and barrel raft from St. Louis to Memphis, navigated a John boat to New Orleans, drove an old Volkswagen alone 8000 miles around the west, spent a month in a dirt floor shack in west-central Mexico digging for Pre-Columbian artifacts, climbed mountains from Alaska to South America, and spent several days in the Amazon jungle.