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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: death

Dreaming of Death—Oops, Bears

May 21, 2014

I’m going to die. Soon. That’s what I thought, waking one morning, remembering three distinct dreams, each in which 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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Epitaph for a Tombstone – Exploring Infinity

August 14, 2013

I came across this recently, something I wrote years and years ago. So much has changed since then, but not …

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The Deer’s Scream, My Mother’s Eyes, and a Ripe Strawberry

November 8, 2012

The deer fleeing for its life turns to look at me with my mother’s eyes.  Dark fierce eyes, bitter-bright, locking …

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A Deer’s Scream – Beauty and Brutality at Home and in the Hills of Vietnam

October 30, 2012

The most horrifying sound I’ve ever heard came one night soon after we moved here.  A scream of pure terror …

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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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