Within My Illusions invites you on a poetic journey of discovery. Join author Jennifer Bloom as she explores questions that arise when making friends with paradox, allowing boundaries to blur, and testing the limits of our habits and beliefs. The poems, taken individually and collectively, tell stories and also question the role that story plays in how we make sense of the world and ourselves. Linger on one poem at a time or take in the book all at once. Read the poems as an observer or br...

What If You Had to Live Your Life All Over Again… Without Being Yourself?Luke Harrison built his life on clarity and control. As a respected journalist in Washington, he understood how to navigate complexity, how to ask the right questions, and how to hold onto what mattered most. His world was structured, purposeful, and deeply rooted in the people he loved.Then, in a single unexplainable moment, everything changes.Luke finds himself forced into a reality that defi...

When magic calls, the heart remembers what the mind forgets.Jennifer Harper once crossed into Everwood, the world behind the world, a city woven from living trees, wild magic, and the hopes of children who dared to believe. But years have passed, and the memories of her childhood adventure now feel like half-remembered dreams. Friendships faded. Life moved on. The magic, she thinks, is gone.Across town, Jerry Kensington, her once-inseparable best friend, feels the same rest...

Some truths refuse to stay hidden. Some names demand to be spoken.In the summer before high school, Jamie Grant learned how to survive by disappearing. She hid her true self, Jennifer, in journals, rituals, and fleeting moments of being seen. Now, in late August 1994 in Kansas, hiding is no longer enough.As high school begins, Jennifer is still Jamie to her family and the world, a trans girl carrying the weight of secrecy, gender identity, and family trauma. Her older siste...

Some truths are discovered quietly. Others must be defended.Jennifer Grace thought she had already crossed the hardest line: choosing her name, claiming her life, and stepping into the world as herself. But becoming visible is not the same as being safe.As sophomore year begins, Jennifer finds that living honestly draws attention she did not ask for. Rumors spread. Boundaries are tested. Old fears resurface in new forms, and the quiet certainty she has built must withstand ...

Aurora I undergoes a transformation as momentous as any leap to the stars. The battered Gravitomagnetic Field Generator, source of so many sleepless nights and fractured ribs, is stripped from the ship. In its place, Silicate bio-crystal gravity plates are installed, their alien pulse promising comfort and unsettling the veterans who learned to distrust every kindness gravity ever offered.Victoria Carter, Lena Petrova, and Elias Vance, now marked by first contact, find themselves n...

Sometimes the universe answers a wish by changing everything except the world around you.Fourteen-year-old Jamie Baker is a drama club kid with a secret she has never dared to say out loud. Under the gray skies of Seattle, she carries a quiet longing to live as Jennifer, her true self, a wish that feels as unreachable as the stars above the city.One cold night on a rooftop, Jamie finally asks the universe for courage. What she receives instead is transformation.By m...

Magic begins the moment you believe. Adventure begins the moment you step inside.On the final day of fifth grade, Jennifer Harper and Jerry Kensington expect a summer filled with simple joys, backyard adventures, and quiet hours lost in books. But everything changes when Jennifer uncovers an ancient, forgotten book hidden deep within her small town library. The discovery awakens a mystery far greater than either child could imagine.Pulled beyond the ordinary world, Jennifer...

Some summers change everything. Others finally let you breathe.Still Jennifer: Becoming Jennifer Book Three is a tender, affirming coming of age story about identity, love, and the quiet power of belonging.Jennifer Marie Grace enters her first summer no longer fighting to explain who she is. In her small Kansas City neighborhood, life slows just enough for her to notice what was once out of reach. Porch swings and late sunsets. Family laughter drifting through open windows....

Existing in a World That Erased You.By 2075, society is stable, prosperous, and quietly ruthless. The global project of removing those labeled unwanted is considered finished, folded into law, bureaucracy, and polite silence. The world believes the problem is solved.Sally Caulfield is transgender, and she should not exist according to that certainty. Raised off the grid by parents who understood exactly how dangerous visibility had become, she grew up grounded in herself ra...

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A computer program etched into the atmosphere has a story to tell—the story of two people, of a city lost to chaos, of survival and love. The program’s data, however, has been corrupted. As the novel’s characters struggle to survive the apocalypse, they are sustained and challenged by the demands of love in a shattered world both haunted and dangerous.