PAW Fiction – Stories of the Post-Apocalyptic World is a compilation of the many stories that author Jerry D. Young has written over the years. Set in the not-to-distant future, each of the stories is a gripping and suspenseful tale of what happens when the thin and fragile veneer of civilization is suddenly ripped away.
The stories take place in a number of different locations and environments, with a variety of TEOTWAWKI events at the center of the collapse. The main cast of individuals in each story are subjected to many trials and tribulations as they wind their way through the events and circumstances to their destiny, interacting with a colorful cast of supporting characters as they go.
Author Jerry D. Young grew up in the midwest state of Missouri. He spent most of his formative years working with his parents and five siblings on a small farm where he learned to raise animals and raise crops, and do food preservation. His mother taught him the domestic arts of cooking, sewing and housekeeping at an early age. His father taught him skills like wood-cutting and splitting, tending the animals, and building and maintaining the property.
Jerry´s first experience with prepping was during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, when he helped his father clean out the tornado shelter and stock it with jars of food from the kitchen pantry in preparation for nuclear war with the USSR. This made a lasting impression on him.
His first attempt at writing was at the age of thirteen when he wrote a story about a group of junior high school children during a Soviet invasion. During high school, his appetite for reading increased and he read Alas, Babylon and How to Survive the H-Bomb and Why by Pat Frank. This stirred old memories and he began to add to his preps, slowly but surely. He kept drawers of canned goods in his bedroom, and practiced with his rifle. After he graduated from high school, he began to work and continued to add to his preps.
Not finding the type of fiction he enjoyed, Jerry revisited his interest in writing and began to writing the type of fiction he loved to read to entertain himself. He enjoyed creating and developing the characters and the circumstances in which the stories evolved.
With the increased popularity of the Internet and the ability to reach out to like-minded folks, Jerry began to find that others shared his passion for prepping and self-sufficiency. He posted some of his stories on message boards and found immediate acceptance within the prepping community. Thus encouraged, he has continued writing and now has more than 80 stories and vignettes.
After repeated requests over the years by his loyal fans, Jerry has made his collected works available on CD for those who want a more permanent copy, to make them directly available without using the Internet, or to give as gifts to friends and family. The CD contains 6,293 pages of Jerry´s stories, other lists developed over the years by Jerry, and also includes 54 manuals and documents with 6,712 pages of useful information and background materials. It even contains several short movies from the National Archives including Duck and Cover featuring Bert the Turtle, and other newsreel footage from the Cold War era.
Jerry has produced this CD to meet the many requests he has received, and hopes that this information both entertains and educates the many PAW fiction readers in the prep community that have enjoyed his stories over the years.
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