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		<title>The Lady and the Wolf</title>
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[Dunham Massey, by Christopher Furlong, 2009]

There was a bug.  A lady bug.  She was the promise of life.  She came in the time of flowers and first figs.  She brought with her the dream of smiles and ruffled hair and laughter.
In the winter she was not to be found.
There was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ivanhope.com/blog/2009/11/18/the-lady-and-the-wolf/</link>
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		<title>An Attempt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
[Reaching for Heaven Genesis 11, by Ruth Palmer, 2009]

He tried.  
Not once or twice.  Not in passing, nor just for the show of the thing.  He tried with the quiet, unflinching confidence of internal necessity: with certain fingers reaching after a thing that they must, at any cost, acquire.  He tried [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ivanhope.com/blog/2009/11/14/an-attempt/</link>
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		<title>Fading Together</title>
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[Rust on White, by Bruce Gunion, 2009]

A splash of rust freckled her long waves of hair.  Or maybe that was just the sun winking down at him, reminding of the deep red curls she once wore.  Her talc white skin was not smooth, as it had been.  Time had blanched her features [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ivanhope.com/blog/2009/05/01/fading-together/</link>
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		<title>How&#8217;d That Get in There&#8230;?</title>
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[Digital Prometheus, by Scott Eaton, 2006]

They wanted a super-soldier.  A thing of muscle and testosterone and unchecked aggression.  They stirred him together in a deoxyribose cocktail:  Frankenstein’s Prometheus unbound, one nucleus at a time, in a blender.  
“Here’s Patton’s pinky toe”, one said.  “Don’t forget Sun-Tzu’s wisdom tooth”, said another. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ivanhope.com/blog/2009/04/05/howd-that-get-in-there/</link>
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		<title>A Letter from Your Hungry Heart</title>
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[Gothic Romance and Greek, by RP Gesus, 2009]

My Dearest Love,
May this letter find you happy, healthy and, most importantly, safe.  You must have a thousand worthy questions in the wake of my abrupt departure yesterday evening.  First, let me say that you should not be concerned for me.  I am all right. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ivanhope.com/blog/2009/03/21/a-letter-from-your-hungry-heart/</link>
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		<title>The Merlin Prophecies #0 (Preview)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now available for order, for those of you so inclined:
Midtown Comics 
Otherwise, if you happen to be in the New York area this weekend, swing by and pick up a copy at the New York convention:

2009 New York Comicon
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		<link>http://ivanhope.com/blog/2009/02/05/the-merlin-prophecies-0-preview/</link>
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		<title>A Press Release&#8230; with my name in it.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

ARDDEN ENTERTAINMENT CONJURES UP MERLIN
FOR THE 2009 NEW YORK COMIC-CON
Ardden Entertainment is proud to announce that comic book industry legend J.M. DeMatteis and writer Derek Ivan Webster are teaming with artist Loren Meyer for THE MERLIN PROPHECIES, a genre-defying modern-day reinvention of the Camelot mythos.
THE MERLIN PROPHECIES is the story of John Myrddin, an emotionally-disturbed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ivanhope.com/blog/2009/01/30/a-press-release-with-my-name-in-it/</link>
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		<title>The Writer&#8217;s Wheel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[to match the voice as heard in memory
align two minds that share the craft of self
define the moment held &#8216;tween him and me
the man I am made distant from past wealth
a pauper now with alms held out in shame
scraps of word stretched above an alley fire
bullion based thoughts bubble despite no claim
dead kindling dreams crackle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ivanhope.com/blog/2008/11/15/the-writers-wheel/</link>
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		<title>an irony in the posting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From time to time I need to leave my words behind
not to be read or wondered at or otherwise considered
but rather left to die the death of progress made in increment
the writer&#8217;s daily dose of attrition from his mind
past ego, beyond plot construction, beneath the hatching of infant worlds
a token sacrifice to the very process [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ivanhope.com/blog/2008/11/07/an-irony-in-the-posting/</link>
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		<title>the first tabula&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[these thoughts shall shame my trepidatious tread
where the whispers warm the winding of my curiosity
a tabula retaught toward the tainted touch of time
scoured surface shared beneath the roar of rasan memory
this calloused canvas caught between the birthing and the blade
as spartan strokes seduce a science so dreamed by destiny
while we walk the wounded water of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ivanhope.com/blog/2008/10/18/hello-world/</link>
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