The Slow Road (10 page)

“He even said he’d pay me a salary for a year in gold and silver if I can find someone that would take it for food and other necessities.” Greg looked at Jasper hopefully.

“I’ll talk it over with Millie,” Jasper said. “You sure you want to do this? You know those guys probably weren’t alone.”

Greg was very serious when he spoke. “Jasper, thanks to you, and the Lord, I’ve been given not one, but two chances. I want to make sure other people have a chance to survive all this.”

“Okay, Greg. As long as you’re sure. You’ll get my support.”

“Thanks, Buddy. Let’s get you and your new brood back home. Looks like I’m going to be able to have some pork ribs again, one of these days.”

Jasper smiled and put the truck into gear. Just maybe life would return to that norm.
 

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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. Jerry eventually began to write in earnest and now has more than 100 titles to his credit including Prep/PAW stories, Action/Adventure, and a few of the romance type stories that first got him started.