Ware Ye

by Jerry D. Young

Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Jerry D. Young Ware Ye An insurance salesman on budget becomes concerned about world events and decides to do what he can to prepare for disaster. EXCERPT “Ware ye! Ware ye, I say! Ware ye! The end time is nigh! Confess! Repent! Ware ye! Ware ye! “The guy is a nut,” laughed Mike, the best bowler on the team. “Ware ye, my rear end.” Larry Winkle didn’t join in the laughter with the rest of his bowling team as they walked past the old, white haired man in his dirty, torn jeans, sweatshirt and cardboard sign that said the same thing he was voicing. “I don’t know how he lives,” said Claude, who happened to be the worst bowler on their team, but still pretty good. “He’s been walking the streets with that sign for a month now.” The fourth member of the team, Marshal, added his two cents to the conversation. “I wish the cops would pick him up. He’s a nuisance and an eyesore. He was spouting that stuff down by the insurance office the other day. My clients were complaining.” When Larry failed to speak up, Mike asked him, “What about you, Larry? What do you think?” Larry shrugged and said, “Who knows? Maybe he’s right.” He laughed a little when the others laughed at him. Larry was beginning to have thoughts along the same lines as the man was pointing out. He’d been a closet prepper for a while now. The old man was giving him the willies. All you had to do was listen to the news, and maybe read between the lines a little, and you could easily believe the man. Not that he felt a need to confess or repent. Larry did feel the need to increase his preparations. Before Katrina he’d always assumed FEMA would be there to make things right. Katrina changed his mind. Rita, too. And the news… Everybody and their brother and their sister seemed to have nuclear weapons. A bunch of those that did or were trying to acquire them had a real hatred of the United States. More Great Stories by Jerry D. Young The Hermit Low Profile Cowboy Home Sweet Bunker Habitat The Liddy Scenario Scavenger A Penny for Your Thoughts Ozark Retreat The Dark Times The Keys to the Kingdom Disaster in the Burbs Shipwrecked And many more! 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.

69 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 10, 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

[Cleo A. Hanson · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good lesson on survival

Great book! It not only told a story of survival but also what is needed to survive during a terrorist attack.

[David Wayne Sutton · Rating 5 out of 5]

As always, a very good read from Mr. Young😊