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Dragons Blood    by Paul Weber
Price: Free! 35480 words. Published on March 12, 2010. .

Recently, while staying at a remote inn by the windy shore of one of Scotland’s famous lochs, I noticed a brick under the hearth in my room was loose. Pulling the brick out and intending to bring the problem to my host’s attention, I noticed what looked like the corner of a small wooden chest. Pulling out some of the other bricks, which were held loosely in place by the decayed mortar.....
Cathartes Aura and the Apocalypse Zoo    by Eighty Six
Price: $0.99 USD. 7970 words. Published on April 4, 2011. .

A post-apocalyptic story of a zoo on the day no one showed up. Narrated by a captive turkey vulture. Written in verse. 10 syllables per line, 10 lines per stanza, 10 stanzas per chapter, and 10 chapters overall. The first episode in the series. The narrator must escape his cage and navigate a zoo without keepers or tourists on his way to a world without structure.
A Feeling in My Bones    by Gervase Shorter
Price: $2.99 USD. 87680 words. Published on April 26, 2011. .

What was Jake Forrester doing when he disappeared while on an assignment for a reclusive billionaire? Did he really travel to Central Africa? A month later he reappears in a Miami clinic suffering from a nervous breakdown. Whatever happened during that month makes Jake and his wife Sally rich but when she tries to investigate what she discovers is so frightening that she has to run for her life.
Condor Mountain    by Angela Dorsey
Price: $2.99 USD. 34330 words. Published by enchantedpony on July 6, 2011. .

Elena’s dad is trapped with his horse in the Andes mountains. Above them, the condors are circling, ready to strike. Elena is the only one who can get to her father and his horse in time, but she doesn’t believe they’re in danger – and she certainly doesn’t trust the strange girl who says she’ll help, the girl who rides the wild mare that no one has ever ben able to tame.
Cathartes Aura on the Road from Nowhere    by Eighty Six
Price: $0.99 USD. 8280 words. Published on August 25, 2011. .

Our turkey-vulture narrator has escaped the zoo and is observing the ragged remnants of humanity recovering from disaster. Some will rebuild. Some will destroy. Some will come together. Some will fall apart. A novel-in-verse written in ten-by-ten format. Book Two in the Cathartes Aura Series.
Pets    by Charles A. Irvin
Price: $0.99 USD. 1100 words. Published by Mossy Feet Books  on January 20, 2012. .

Beware of people that keep buzzards as pets and pay attention to what they feed them.
Epic Fantasy 0.9b    by Will Weisser
Price: $1.99 USD. 35460 words. Published on June 5, 2012. .

The Decay is coming, and Ian, a fifteen-year-old from the Northwestern Forests of the Region, must flee his home village or be melted into noxious brown goo. When he encounters a mysterious stranger who reveals that the Region may not be what it appears, he must decide whether to stay faithful to his friends, or abandon them and seek the truth.
I Wonder… Does A Camel Store Water In Its Hump"    by Judith Janda Presnall
Price: $0.99 USD. 2260 words. Published by LearningIsland.com  on March 4, 2013. .

I Wonder… About Desert Animals Does a roadrunner ever run on sidewalks? Does the Arizona bark scorpion growl like a dog? Why does the cactus wren use cactus plants for its nests? What is the purpose of those huge ears on the fennec fox? Does the Texas banded gecko live only in Texas? Does a kangaroo rat have a tummy pouch? Learn the answer to these questions and many more in this fun book!
The Goodwill Vultures Club: A Day of Heroes    by Peak City Publishing, LLC
Price: $3.99 USD. 21860 words. Published on April 9, 2013. .

Goodwill Vultures Club gives readers an inside look at a boy facing more than a normal share of challenges, from divorced parents and confrontations with his peers, to a brother with cerebral palsy, to his own quest for other people to appreciate vultures as he does. Buzz strives to get others to see past his pet vulture’s exterior to the importance and value of the creature.