A positive new voice to ad to the gay entertainment genre, Kevin Hunter hits the scene with a love story that takes place online, “Navy Blue Eyes”. In an attempt to promote stronger love relationships in a world that lacks it, twenty-nine year old Trevor is drained by his own lack of love for anyone, and ends up becoming immersed by a young man who comes into his life unexpectedly. Wade is eighteen years old and feels as worn out by his life as Trevor does with his. Battling his own coming of age and sexuality issues he is drawn to Trevor, someone who is at ease with himself, and in turn opens up hidden depths out of Trevor that he never knew existed. The understanding between them leads to a highly sexual love affair, and it isn’t long before Trevor realizes he got more than he bargained for. What begins as light and sweet, soon turns dark and bitter as both wrestle to keep their long distance relationship alive. An endless array of emails, letters, phone conversations and chat messages abound with heavy dialogue in a chronological diary. Hard-hearted life experience and insight into relationships and knowing your partner before things get to hairy pollute the couples growing turbulent warfare. The peaks and valleys of one relationship that forever haunts independent minded Trevor, making him easy prey to his love, forces him to readjust. His union with Wade moves into treacherous waters and he is hit with a bat, with test after test on what he feels will define a solid relationship with someone and how much he can take. His almost mafia style ethics when it comes to what a relationship really entails and going into it a fighter, a take no prisoners attitude till the end of your lives together proves noble. A voyeuristic view of the development of an online relationship told from Trevor’s eyes spins out of control. Harsh, documentary tone honoring the moments between two people, including the advantages and pitfalls of online dating. Sound relationship, dating, sex, and romance advice through Trevor’s experience intertwine the couples’ affair into a braid to a shocking conclusion. Contains strong and explicit language. A forceful first effort by Kevin Hunter, “Navy Blue Eyes” is an indication of this author’s storytelling talent, and there will be much to look forward to as Hunter matures as a writer and storyteller.
Six years of living in my own solitary iciness has flown by. My dating life has become non-existent. I am going out with everyone and feeling nothing. I want to be a wild bachelor no more. But I crave excitement. I want someone like me. I was a party animal and now those days have become far and fewer between, mostly due to my life being too demanding in the career spectrum. Get up in the morning, go to work, go home, go to bed and repeat those steps everyday. I have longed to feel the kind of love that can only be found in a fairy tale or in a movie. I want to feel a love that fills you up all over your body. You cannot stop smiling at ridiculous objects, that kind of love. Sometimes aches take over your remains when you are not around that person. That person that opens you up without censure, and they challenge you in ways that no one else can. They piss the fuck out of you and you love it. I paused every time I saw him. I could smell the heat. But maybe that could just be because today is hotter that usual for a Spring weekend. It is the kind of heat that wraps around you like a warm blanket, making you feel really horny and cuddly. The sky is the most perfect blue, an ideal state of endlessness, lit up as if the sun were a light fixture splashing itself against a good looking model. After millions of admirers and participants have sifted their way in front of my eyes like numbers in a prodigy child’s mind. Here he is, stopping the tape recorder for me to listen to him. He hit my life like a ship to an iceberg, Navy Blue Eyes.