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Survival Short Stories
POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION BY JERRY D. YOUNG
Three great short stories from prolific post-apocalyptic fiction writer Jerry D. Young.
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.
“CLUELESS”
Three families, all friends, are totally clueless as to what to do when the economy tanks and nuclear war threatens.
“WHAT IS THE PASSWORD?
Using passwords saves a family after a volcano erupts and creates a tsunami and then nuclear war breaks out.
”OPERATION: BLUE DRAGON”
When the Chinese invasion of the US, Operation Blue Dragon, commenses a mutual aid group of preppers responds.
Three great short stories from prolific post-apocalyptic fiction writer Jerry D. Young.
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.
“CLUELESS”
Three families, all friends, are totally clueless as to what to do when the economy tanks and nuclear war threatens.
“WHAT IS THE PASSWORD?
Using passwords saves a family after a volcano erupts and creates a tsunami and then nuclear war breaks out.
”OPERATION: BLUE DRAGON”
When the Chinese invasion of the US, Operation Blue Dragon, commenses a mutual aid group of preppers responds.
125 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 31, 2015
About the author
Jerry D. Young
153 books29 followersJerry 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.
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.
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May 22, 2019
I've read more gripping Harry Potter shipping fanfiction than this. I've read 9th grade essays with better grammar and structure. So let's
Take a minute , just sit right there while I walk you through how I made it through this 2nd trimester abortion of literature.
The book is broken down into three stories. Which I'll touch on each. One thing to note is that there is strong anti establishment, anti intellectualism and anti government rhetroic in all of them.
The first and undoubtedly most painful short story is, "family emergency excursion." The story immediately introduces you to not only 1, but a dozen(ish) characters in the first two pages. So and so was married to so and so who were cousins with so and so. It reads like duetoromney, and is about as thrilling.
The basic gist of the story is this extended family of rich doomsday preppers have to leave their homes and rally at a distant farm as the end times come. So it's a story about a journey. Like lord of the rings, but without any of the emotional connection to characters or depth. Or hero quest, or excitement. Okay so not like lord of the rings at all.
Fairly quickly the main character non chalently stabs a man in the heart. And no one else seems to really care. Seriously? No one is gonna comment from the family on how bad it's getting or why he did it? Just a quick chuckle and "no trouble I couldnt handle." Comment.
What kind of fucking sociopathic cultists are these people?
Anyway, we got two other short stories to get through. So I'll speed this up. So the family all links up in their vehicles and weapons and head through some rough country to the farm, witnessing some hungry folks, getting in some poorly written shoot outs and ending up at the farm. They get to the farm and no one died from their group, there was no sacrifice made.
The story suffers from telling instead of showing, and spends paragraphs detailing weapon types, calibers, truck carrying capacity and such. No one wants to read that the weapon was a .223 PDW and how one of the nameless characters doesnt like that caliber. It had no influence or relevance in the story at all. There wasnt a point where he ran out of ammo and had to scavenge some from a dead looter and it luckily fit his weapon. Its just boring needless gun talk. The same extends to Suzuki bikes and other stuff.
The grammar and editing is poor. (Teenager is spelled teen ager at one point. And the pacing is terrible. There is zero world building at all. The preppers are portrayed as heros without any flaws and those who dont are either idiots waiting to die, or enemies to be killed.
The first short story gets a solid 1/10 it's the worst of the three by far.
The second short story is surprisingly better than the first. But after wading through sewage, a trash can doesnt smell that bad.
The second story, "I'll have a beer thanks for asking." Follows the story of a laid off handy man who watches the end of the world begin from a bar. He quickly leaves, grabs supplies and heads to the hills to await the coming armageddon.
He then heads back to town, loots some stuff, helps some survivors out at a court house, and saves them from some raiders. In the end, no one important dies, good guys win.
A preppers stash is found and that of course saves the day. Young writes much better following one character around compared to multiple ones. Even if the character itself is confusing in some regards. He starts off as a gomer Pyle or forest Gump style idiot, but at the end is figuring out how to filter water with buckets and coffee filters. It's completely inconsistent.
But the world building is a bit better. Descriptions of broken stores, and looters help build a world where the first story did not. I cared a little for the fate of those in the courthouse. There is also significantly less needless descriptions of calibers or vehicle types. It's still present, but much reduced.
Probably the best of the three, a solid 2.5 out of 10. It's still trash, but it doesnt stink as bad.
The last is "dont bug me" a short story about a reporter sent to do two stories. One on s GMO lab and another on a group of preppers.
The labs lead scientist is pushed as an arrogant intellectual talking down to the reporter. Again Young suffers from telling us this (he literally says the main character felt talked down to) instead of showing us the arrogance through action or speech. He just told us. Lazy writing.
Of course these GMO creation is bad. Some modified bug that will eat pest bugs and save crops. Clearly GMOs =bad Is one of the themes of this short.
The reporter leaves, and visits coffee growing, tea sipping cultists(er preppers) at a local ranch. Who despite what the MSM (main stream media) says, preppers arnt bad!. Oh let's toss on some anti media sentiment in the mix too.
Yeah, you can see where this is going. The Bugs get out and cause a problem. The preppers and reporter have to move in and save the day from the terrible smart people and main stream media.
This would be good if it was written for a 9th grade creative writing course. Young continues to show a complete lack of ability to show any kind of pacing, or develop anything other than a surface connection to any of the characters. The majority of them have a depth of cardboard, with some maybe breaking into the wooden level. I never for once cared that the main character was locked in a closet, or the dopey janitor was mauled by bugs.
it's the most on the nose political rhetroic of the three. Preppers good, media and smart people bad. It still suffers from the over telling weapons spewing of the past. "Heres a glock 21 and a detailed description of how to load it, and a vest with 90 rounds on it." Ughh
I dont know, maybe a 1.75 out of 10? The fact that this book managed to get published makes me want to write again. Because if this shit can sell, damn near anything can.
It's bad folks. Real bad.
Take a minute , just sit right there while I walk you through how I made it through this 2nd trimester abortion of literature.
The book is broken down into three stories. Which I'll touch on each. One thing to note is that there is strong anti establishment, anti intellectualism and anti government rhetroic in all of them.
The first and undoubtedly most painful short story is, "family emergency excursion." The story immediately introduces you to not only 1, but a dozen(ish) characters in the first two pages. So and so was married to so and so who were cousins with so and so. It reads like duetoromney, and is about as thrilling.
The basic gist of the story is this extended family of rich doomsday preppers have to leave their homes and rally at a distant farm as the end times come. So it's a story about a journey. Like lord of the rings, but without any of the emotional connection to characters or depth. Or hero quest, or excitement. Okay so not like lord of the rings at all.
Fairly quickly the main character non chalently stabs a man in the heart. And no one else seems to really care. Seriously? No one is gonna comment from the family on how bad it's getting or why he did it? Just a quick chuckle and "no trouble I couldnt handle." Comment.
What kind of fucking sociopathic cultists are these people?
Anyway, we got two other short stories to get through. So I'll speed this up. So the family all links up in their vehicles and weapons and head through some rough country to the farm, witnessing some hungry folks, getting in some poorly written shoot outs and ending up at the farm. They get to the farm and no one died from their group, there was no sacrifice made.
The story suffers from telling instead of showing, and spends paragraphs detailing weapon types, calibers, truck carrying capacity and such. No one wants to read that the weapon was a .223 PDW and how one of the nameless characters doesnt like that caliber. It had no influence or relevance in the story at all. There wasnt a point where he ran out of ammo and had to scavenge some from a dead looter and it luckily fit his weapon. Its just boring needless gun talk. The same extends to Suzuki bikes and other stuff.
The grammar and editing is poor. (Teenager is spelled teen ager at one point. And the pacing is terrible. There is zero world building at all. The preppers are portrayed as heros without any flaws and those who dont are either idiots waiting to die, or enemies to be killed.
The first short story gets a solid 1/10 it's the worst of the three by far.
The second short story is surprisingly better than the first. But after wading through sewage, a trash can doesnt smell that bad.
The second story, "I'll have a beer thanks for asking." Follows the story of a laid off handy man who watches the end of the world begin from a bar. He quickly leaves, grabs supplies and heads to the hills to await the coming armageddon.
He then heads back to town, loots some stuff, helps some survivors out at a court house, and saves them from some raiders. In the end, no one important dies, good guys win.
A preppers stash is found and that of course saves the day. Young writes much better following one character around compared to multiple ones. Even if the character itself is confusing in some regards. He starts off as a gomer Pyle or forest Gump style idiot, but at the end is figuring out how to filter water with buckets and coffee filters. It's completely inconsistent.
But the world building is a bit better. Descriptions of broken stores, and looters help build a world where the first story did not. I cared a little for the fate of those in the courthouse. There is also significantly less needless descriptions of calibers or vehicle types. It's still present, but much reduced.
Probably the best of the three, a solid 2.5 out of 10. It's still trash, but it doesnt stink as bad.
The last is "dont bug me" a short story about a reporter sent to do two stories. One on s GMO lab and another on a group of preppers.
The labs lead scientist is pushed as an arrogant intellectual talking down to the reporter. Again Young suffers from telling us this (he literally says the main character felt talked down to) instead of showing us the arrogance through action or speech. He just told us. Lazy writing.
Of course these GMO creation is bad. Some modified bug that will eat pest bugs and save crops. Clearly GMOs =bad Is one of the themes of this short.
The reporter leaves, and visits coffee growing, tea sipping cultists(er preppers) at a local ranch. Who despite what the MSM (main stream media) says, preppers arnt bad!. Oh let's toss on some anti media sentiment in the mix too.
Yeah, you can see where this is going. The Bugs get out and cause a problem. The preppers and reporter have to move in and save the day from the terrible smart people and main stream media.
This would be good if it was written for a 9th grade creative writing course. Young continues to show a complete lack of ability to show any kind of pacing, or develop anything other than a surface connection to any of the characters. The majority of them have a depth of cardboard, with some maybe breaking into the wooden level. I never for once cared that the main character was locked in a closet, or the dopey janitor was mauled by bugs.
it's the most on the nose political rhetroic of the three. Preppers good, media and smart people bad. It still suffers from the over telling weapons spewing of the past. "Heres a glock 21 and a detailed description of how to load it, and a vest with 90 rounds on it." Ughh
I dont know, maybe a 1.75 out of 10? The fact that this book managed to get published makes me want to write again. Because if this shit can sell, damn near anything can.
It's bad folks. Real bad.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 24, 2017
Repetitious reviewing of the same old "Red Dawn" stories. Teenage boys may find the descriptions of the firearms fascinating, but being an old infantry vet I find no interest in them. Guess what happens when there is nuclear war? Everybody dies eventually. From the initial effects of the blast, radiation poisoning, starvation.... It is well written but is a Chinese or Russian invasion really going to happen? Naw. Then they would have to take care of all those Americans who would be suffering from the effects of a nuclear blast. As far as the prose goes it is well composed and easy to read. But, like I said before, it is just a repeat of the same old "Red Dawn" story.
February 24, 2016
Good trio
This was a good trio of short stories. The first reinforce best! The last being a little far fetched....or is it?
This was a good trio of short stories. The first reinforce best! The last being a little far fetched....or is it?
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