The Cougar

By Ian W. Cooper

It’s just Penn Newburgh and his digital camera, all alone and out in the woods. He’s on the trail of a cougar, the biggest cat in North America. He’s got fresh tracks, but what are the odds? And that ain’t the half of it, as there’s more than one kind of cougar. A short and romantic tale of adventure.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ian W. Cooper
• Release date: Feb 9, 2016
• ISBN: 9781927957929

Ian W. Cooper

Ian Cooper has written fiction, non-fiction and worked for newspapers and magazines. He likes to make people laugh as well as think. His writing has a strong sense of the dramatic. Out of work and recovering from a life-threatening illness, someone suggested writing his sexual memoirs, which he initially rejected for the amount of research involved. He didn’t want to have to make it all up from scratch. A single dad and semi-retired from his most recent experience in the construction industry, Ian squeezes a little writing time in between raising a daughter and building a home-based business.

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The Cougar

Ian W. Cooper

Copyright 2016 Ian W. Cooper and Long Cool One Books

Design: J. Thornton

ISBN 978-1-927957-92-9

The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to any person living or deceased, or to any places or events, is purely coincidental. Names, places, settings, characters and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination.

Table of Contents

Act One

Act Two

Act Three

About Ian W. Cooper

The Cougar

Ian W. Cooper

Act One

Penn Newburgh studied the track up close.

He rose carefully to avoid a crick in the knee. The mud was still soft, and the print was still plastic on the thin edges of raised areas.

About half the size of one of his own paws, that was one big cat.

One track.

Chickadees and rustling small birds in the underbrush chirped and called.

That was one mighty big track, and all he had with him today was the little instamatic pocket snapshot and video camera.

It would have to do.

The morning was rapidly warming. Penn unscrewed the top of