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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Memoir

True Ghost Stories, Part VII – Do I Believe This Stuff? “You know nothing, Jon Snow”

October 31, 2013

I haven’t experienced any hauntings or paranormal activity since the “demon” sitting on my chest eventually scurried away. If you …

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True Ghost Stories, Part VI – Evil Incarnate

October 28, 2013

The dark creatures that haunt our dreams and come to us as waking nightmares take many shapes or forms, but …

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True Ghost Stories, Part V – A Demon on My Chest

October 21, 2013

Have you ever awoken from sleep to find yourself paralyzed with fear as something dark and evil sitting on your …

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True Ghost Stories, Part IV – Resident Evil: In the Belly of the Beast

October 18, 2013

We felt so fortunate. Dale had a job in San Francisco that summer, and his Uncle who lived nearby asked …

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True Ghost Stories, Part III – When the Dead Refuse to Leave

October 14, 2013

My continuing series of True Life Ghost Stories to celebrate Halloween. My grandmother Margaret had a hard life. Widowed in …

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True Ghost Stories, Part II – Attack of the Poltergeist

October 10, 2013

It’s a blessing I think now that I never knew as a child that a woman whose blood still stained …

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True Ghost Stories, Part One – Growing Up in a Haunted House

October 7, 2013

As Halloween draws near, I will be posting a series of true life tales about the hauntings, ghosts, and demons I …

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“Writing from the Underbelly” – My Revamped Website

August 29, 2013

I’ve been busy recently re-vamping my writers website at http://www.djbrasket.com, as well as creating a Facebook Author page, and setting …

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Sailing with Kids into the Unknown, Continuation of Sea Saga, Part VI

July 3, 2013

This post is a continuation of the article I wrote about long-distance sailing with children that I wrote long ago …

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Sea Saga, Part VI — Cruising with Kids, Dream or Nightmare?

June 30, 2013

The following is an article published in Latitude 38 many years ago. I’m reprinting it here as part of our Sea …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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