Author Sharek A. Gadd was born in a midwestern commune 1971, and grew up in a nine-member family struggling with Li-Fraumeni syndrome.  The illness, deaths, and grief drove Mr. Gadd to join the U.S. Army.  After his military service, he returned to White River, Indiana, wherein practices multimedia arts and crafts.  This is his previously tightly-held story, The Bird’s Road.