Hello there! I’m Rob W. Bragdon—author of Oxygen Debt, a literary horror novel about memory, grief, and the debts we owe.

Tess Halvorsen once believed every question had an answer—if you looked closely enough. But after a heart attack forces her into early retirement, her thoughts have become unreliable. Time slips. Words vanish. And some mornings, in the gray hush just after dawn, she wakes unable to move or breathe, her father—dead for decades—standing at the foot of her bed.

Her doctors suggest stress. Her family suspects something worse. But Tess isn’t the only one seeing things. When her granddaughter begins having visions of her own, Tess is forced to confront a deeper pattern, one she can’t explain away with science.

There’s a rhythm inside her skull now, a ticking she can’t escape. And with each beat, the past draws closer—not gone, not buried, but waiting to be remembered.

Some debts are measured in breath.

Oxygen Debt releases in August 2025. Set against the eerie beauty of the Pacific Northwest, Oxygen Debt is a slow-burn psychological horror story about generational trauma, fractured memory, and what it means when the past refuses to stay dead.

If you enjoy books by authors like Paul Tremblay, Grady Hendrix, or Stephen Graham Jones—or if you're drawn to quiet horror that lingers in the lungs—you’ll feel right at home here.

Stick around. Things are about to surface.


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