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	<title>The Roost</title>
	<link>http://wyvernet.com</link>
	<description>The Blog of Writer Gregory Blake</description>
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		<title>Tomatoes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a month and a half ago, I was visiting my family down at the farm.  While I was talking to my mom, somehow (I seriously don&#8217;t know how, being on a farm) the idea of agriculture came up, and I said with some annoyance that despite my rural roots, I&#8217;ve never grown anything in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wyvernet.com/2010/08/19/tomatoes/</link>
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		<title>The Doom That Came to Sarnath, H.P. Lovecraft, Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And before he died, Taran-Ish had scrawled upon the altar of chrysolite with coarse shaky strokes the sign of DOOM.&#8221; &#8211; The Doom That Came to Sarnath by H.P. Lovecraft.
Warning, major spoilers up ahead because this story made me cranky.
Doooooooooooooom!
I know that it was cool in the first half of the 20th century for authors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wyvernet.com/2010/03/03/the-doom-that-came-to-sarnath-h-p-lovecraft-review/</link>
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		<title>A Jalt’s Tooth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wil huddled on his cot, his eyes peering through a crack in the wall that admitted rooftops and starlight.
The mattress’s straw stuffing didn’t cushion him from the hard wood underneath.  Tonight, Father had hit him again.  Wil had rolled with each blow, but he still stung.
The old drunk’s snores reminded Wil of ripping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wyvernet.com/2010/03/02/a-jalts-tooth/</link>
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		<title>The Descendant by H.P. Lovecraft, Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I finished this short story, I looked around in the reader, wondering where the rest of it was.

What is there, appears to be the introduction to a horror story, written in a style mildly different from Lovecraft&#8217;s norm but citing the Necronomicon of the Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred.
My biggest problem with this short story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wyvernet.com/2010/03/02/the-descendant-by-h-p-lovecraft-review/</link>
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		<title>Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For its weight class, Dagon is a strong contender.  It packs good tension, a solid narrative structure, and a close lensing that allows us to get solidly behind the protagonist.  No spoilers ahead, but still providing a break.
I have relatively few complaints about this short story.  It is lean and muscular.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wyvernet.com/2010/03/01/dagon-by-h-p-lovecraft/</link>
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		<title>Artwork and Wallpapers for WyvernET</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some wonderful work done on my behalf (you can click on either for the bigger version).

Thanks to Lauren Hambacher for the original concept and artwork shown here.


And thanks to Bill Dye for the mead-stained parchment looking desktop wallpaper based off of Lauren&#8217;s design.  I guess that&#8217;s what I get for taking my monitor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wyvernet.com/2010/02/28/artwork-and-wallpapers-for-wyvernet/</link>
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		<title>Review of Cool Air by H.P. Lovecraft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A pretty short story, but still, spoilers may exist as I plow forward.
Cool Air is a story about a hard-up magazine writer and a mysterious doctor, whose utter mastery of the medical craft astounds the writer.  He becomes the doctor&#8217;s helper in doing various tasks, including maintaining the ammonia cooling system that keeps the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wyvernet.com/2010/02/28/review-of-cool-air-by-h-p-lovecraft/</link>
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		<title>The Colour Out of Space, Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m really not sure what to make of this story.  Oh, right, spoiler alert, although there&#8217;s not that much to spoil.
Surgeon General&#8217;s Warning: Certain Colours can drive you MAD.  Most colors, however, are safe.  Except Agent Orange, which can cause cancer.


Okay.  So the story is framed by some guy from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wyvernet.com/2010/02/27/the-colour-out-of-space-review/</link>
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		<title>The Review of Charles Dexter Ward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;OGTHROD AI&#8217;F
GEB&#8217;L-EE&#8217;H
YOG-SOTHOTH
&#8216;NGAH&#8217;NG AI&#8217;Y
ZHRO!&#8221;
-Mystical Psychobabble from the story.
Thanks for the word-salad, Lovecraft.  In all seriousness, read that aloud, in a dark room, it&#8217;s wholly chilling.
This was a very long, but very rewarding read.  Here&#8217;s your obligatory spoiler warning:

Now that that&#8217;s out of the way:
Characters.  The characters in Charles Dexter Ward are very well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wyvernet.com/2010/02/26/the-review-of-charles-dexter-ward/</link>
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		<title>The Call of Cthulhu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.&#8221;
- H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
The Call of Cthulhu, perhaps the most iconic and recognizable of H.P. Lovecraft&#8217;s Cosmic Horror stories, is also at once a let down and a wonder of literature.

It is a wonder because there are so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wyvernet.com/2010/02/18/the-call-of-cthulhu/</link>
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