Rob Hunter

In the first story, JASPER, the orange kitten Jasper is on a journey to get back home after he is swept away in a flash flood. Fighting to stay afloat in the raging water, Jasper passes over an iron manhole cover just as the transformer above him is struck by lightning. In that second an electromagnetic field beams down and electrifies his occipital lobe and other neighboring regions of his brain. The heat from the electricity welds them together creating one new super region. The result is the gift of second vision, a sixth sense. Jasper will quickly become a street cat hero. He will find a new home with a 14 year-old girl named Stevie who is trying to cope with her own terrible loss. In COYOTE MIDNIGHT Jasper is safe in his new life with Stevie and her mother when trouble comes to town. A pack of phantom coyotes infiltrates Nashville and begins feasting on the stray cats of the city. Jasper is called upon to save his old friends. He will recruit an old adversary to aid him in the battle for Nashville. THE UNDERWORLD is a suspenseful convergence of hidden cash from a bank robbery, a desperate heavyweight boxer, and Stevie, her two friends, and Jasper in the depths of Dunbar Cave in Clarksville, Tennessee. When Stevie and her friends find themselves lost in the cave their situation becomes even more perilous when they are overtaken by Ross Rablat who steals their flashlights and leaves them in the darkness.

In Coyote Midnight, the sequel to Jasper, the strays of Nashville come to Jasper for aid because four phantom coyotes, seemingly appearing and disappearing at will, terrorize the city of Nashville on a nightly basis. When Jasper hears that his mother had a narrow escape from Buzzsaw, the leader of this band of coyotes, he reluctantly leaves Stevie, and crosses state lines to recruit an old adversary for help.

Currently seeking an agent

September Swim, published in 2005 by Spoon River Poetry Press, is available from me (ten dollars) or from the publisher (twelve dollars.) You’ll find my mailing address under contact information. Just send me ten–cash or check, and I’ll send you a copy. The publisher’s link is: http://www.ellispress.com/history.htm

Rob Hunter’s second volume of poetry, a chapbook, Wild in the Dawn, was published in February 2023 by Finishing Line Press. That book is now available from the publisher, Amazon, and other online retailers.