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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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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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13 Ways of Looking at Dying, Just Before, and the Moment After

September 24, 2013

This is the title of a short story I wrote that was published in the Fall Issue of Cobalt Review. …

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Blogging and “The Accident of Touching”

September 17, 2013

These are the last lines of a poem I wrote long ago. The accident of touching is so rare! Sometimes …

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Emily Dickinson, Blogger Extraordinaire

September 14, 2013

I cannot help wondering whether Emily Dickinson, that famous recluse, would not have been an avid blogger if she had …

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Unwanted Solicitor, or Failing to See Humanity Behind the Hand

September 10, 2013

Unwanted Solicitor, or Failing to see Humanity Behind the Hand by Deborah J. Brasket He stood there, a youth from …

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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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