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    Walking Dead 2: Undead Outback
    Walking Dead 2: Undead Outback
    Walking Dead 2: Undead Outback
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    Walking Dead 2: Undead Outback

    By David N. Brown

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    When an extinct beast returns from the dead, the curse of a vengeful god is unleashed in the Australian desert as an army of walking dead. It is up to Carlos Wrzniewski to save the world again!

    David N. Brown is a resident of Mesa, Arizona.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid N. Brown
    Release dateJul 28, 2011
    ISBN9781466148796
    Walking Dead 2: Undead Outback
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    David N. Brown

    David N. Brown is a nearly lifelong Resident of Mesa, Arizona, with longstanding interests in science and technology,folklore and disability issues. He earned a bachelor's degree in paleontology from Northern Arizona University in 2005 and a Master's degree in Christian Studies from Denver Seminary in 2013. His first books, Worlds of Naughtenny Moore and Walking Dead, were originally published in 2006 and 2007 by Open Page Publishing, a venture with Brandon Willey, Kara Willey Warren and syndicated cartoonist Tony Carillo. In 2009, he began self-publishing through Amazon, and also created the autism resource site www.evilpossum.weebly.com. He has contributed to sites including fanfiction.net, ravendays.org, and leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk.

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      Walking Dead 2 - David N. Brown

      Walking Dead: Undead Outback

      by David N. Brown

      Smashwords edition copyright 2011 David N. Brown

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      A Surprising Discovery

      The interior of Australia is one of the most inhospitable deserts on Earth. But not so long ago, it was green with grass and trees, and teeming with the most curious of game, from monitor lizards as big as bears to wombat-like creatures as big as rhinoceroces to still more exotic creatures like the bygone native wolf. The aborigines' legends of the Dream Time give some recollections of this age, and to geologists, it is as a moment ago, like the fresh print in the mud of this morning's rain. And to the rocks themselves- who knows? Perhaps to whatever beings or forces guide the course of eons, the bygone age is like a fond, slumbering friend, while the reign of man is but an annoyance to be endured like an hour's drizzle.

      Beneath the desert are many caves, worn in limestone by water. They are probably quite young, in the geological view of things, but old enough to hold bones of the creatures that roamed the bygone forests. Paleontologists, professional and amateur, search the caves for bones. So do less scrupulous duffers, who sell bones to whomever offers the best price, and the occasional outright vandal, who smash what they find for reasons known only to themselves.

      Jeff Kettering stood in the gray area between amateur fossil collector and duffer. He had no formal training beyond a few college classes, and so could not claim paleontologist as a professional title. He frequently sold his finds, so he could not claim to be a paleontological volunteer. But, he was genuinely curious about fossils, and sincerely desired to cooperate with professionals in advancing the science of paleontology. He routinely told himself, as well as others, that if he ever made a find of genuine importance, he would gladly give it to a professional for study. He had as yet never been put to that test, as the most significant discoveries he had made so far were a 2000-year-old spear head and a dozen mid-1800s rimfire casings. But that would change within moments as he stepped into a small side chamber of one of the more isolated caves.

      The thing against the cave wall was unquestionably dead, but looked like a fresh carcass. For that reason, he nearly turned away, but looked just long enough to take interest. It was the size of a dog, and at first glance looked just like a dog. Kettering leaned in for a closer look, and knew better, but took another look because it seemed too fantastic to be true. He saw the stout, straight tail, subtly unlike a dog's. He saw the stripes on its body. But he was not convinced until he counted the toes. He murmured as if enraptured: Thylacine.

      The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian wolf, was a memorial to the cruelty of man, and to the inefficiency of his governments. As far as could be determined by paleontologists, it vanished from the Australian mainland around the time of Christ. It lived in the southern island of Tasmania until European colonists arrived. Even then, it lived long enough to be despised as a killer of sheep. In the1800s and early 1900s, though it was known even then that more sheep were taken by dingoes and human thieves (the original duffers) than by thylacines, bounties were paid for dead thylacines. Over 2,000 pounds in bounties were paid (at one pound per adult pelt) by the government alone. In 1936, the killing of thylacines was outlawed, and assigned a fine of $5,000. This law was passed three years after the last known thylacine was caught in the wild, and two months before said specimen died in the Hobart zoo. Sightings had continued for the following 140-plus years, however, and laws protecting it had never been

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