Gettin' Hot

by Jerry D. Young

POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION BY JERRY D. YOUNG WITH THINGS GETTING HOT IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE... Larry must find a way to keep his cool...and save his life. He finds refuge in an old, remote family property handed down to him from his grandfather and moves out of town to beat the heat and the craziness. As he settles in he meets a local waitress that just so happens to be not only the pretties girl in town, but the girl who steals his heart as well. With the world heating up and society breaking down, can Larry help them both survive to live the kind of life they want to build together? ABOUT AUTHOR JERRY D. YOUNG Author Jerry D. Young has been a fixture in the survival and prepping communities for more than twenty years. The author of more than 100 novels and short stories, Jerry’s writing has been a staple for men and women of all ages and from all walks of life that are interested in prepping, survival, and all-around self-sufficiency. Jerry’s books are written with the goal of educating as well as entertaining and generally enjoyed by all who seek to expand their knowledge of prepping and survival topics while enjoying a good book or short story. As daunting as the end of the world, nuclear fallout, World War III, Civil unrest, economic collapse, solar flares, EMP attacks, and other apocalyptic scenarios may be, society has always been interested in the “What If?” of a Post-Apocalyptic World. Jerry’s stories provide interesting and practical perspectives of heroes and villains navigating Post-Apocalyptic scenarios including everything from Mad Max type of events to more relevant plot lines that seem as if they could have come from the headlines of the modern world. Find more about Jerry D. Young at www.CreativeTexts.com.

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First published November 29, 2012

About the author

Jerry D Young was born at home, in Senath, Missouri July 3, 1953. At age 5 the family rented a small farm house on an active farm 40 miles southwest of St. Louis. While the family weren't farmers, they lived something of a homestead type life, raising a milk cow, sometimes two, and calves, a pig or two, chickens, and the occasional goat. Along with the stock, a large garden helped to feed Jerry's three brothers and two sisters for several years. Fishing and hunting contributed to the pantry, as did foraging the wild edibles on the property.

At the age of 14, the family, minus a brother and two sisters that were now adults and on their own, moved back to Senath. Having been encouraged from an early age to read, Jerry was a regular patron of the Senath Branch Library.

A love of a good story was born within him, and shortly before graduating high school, for a lack of stories that he liked at the library, he began to write short vignettes, and started taking notes for stories that he wanted to tell. Well, a full life interceded, and the writing didn't resume for several years.

But while working a job with a much free time, and the then newfangled home computer, Jerry began to write in earnest. With the occasional gap in the process, Jerry continued to research and write, never believing he could ever be published. But when he turned 50, he wanted a change in his life, left the job he was doing and began focusing on his writing.

When he became ill, the writing stopped, but not the inspiration. When he started writing again, in 2004, after getting the medical problems under control, he began to read some on-line stories dealing with emergency preparedness, one of his other loves. The die was cast. Now with over a hundred of the vignettes and short stories about how to survive disasters written, along with his other novels, Jerry decided to go for broke, adding one of his previous works every few days to his list of stories now available, Jerry continues to write, both the Prep/PAW stories, as well as action adventure with a little romance type stories that first got him started.

Reviews

[Patiscynical · Rating 2 out of 5]

Still the same

A basic prepper story, nothing really new.
Boy becomes a prepper, makes a bug out location, meets beautiful girl who is also into prepping, and TSHTF.
All out nuclear war, (but luckily they have a fallout shelter.) evil politicians, and stupid evil people
Not as much info about preps as are in most books in this genre, just mostly that they had them.
No sex, not much bad language, and no graphic violence. There was violence, just not graphic.
And the ending was kind of left open.
Results: it's ok. It's an easy read, and there's no deep thinking required. You won't get many good prepper ideas from it, but I got it on kindle unlimited, so I didn't actually pay for it.

[Tom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Predictable plot, poorly written, usual work from this author.

Fairly short poorly written story with little thought or research done. Minor editing issues such as misspelled words the word processor missed and a couple of homophones used causing minor distractions.

If you have an hour or so of absolutely nothing else to do, this may be the story to waste time on.

[Jeanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read

A good combination of prepping info and realistic characters. Not sure the gov would be that dumb but maybe so?

[Dawn Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good short story

Good short story bring family together and showing how family should stick together in good times and bad. Always having each other's back.

[Margaret · Rating 5 out of 5]

Getting hot

Loved the book I only. Wished I had started reading your stories a long time ago. It gave a lot of good info and ideals of what might come in the future.

[Kelly Wade · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[IMHO · Rating 5 out of 5]

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