A mermaid rests against the console of a starship, looking out a viewport at a planet and the Milky Way.
A new book
Mermaid in a Starship
Field Notes from
Another Frequency
the deeper intelligence humming beneath the performance, beneath the pathology, beneath the prescribed ways of being.
is you
essays on eros and the particular loneliness of carrying a frequency that reads as static to everyone around you.
on perception and pattern, and life lived outside the default settings.
fragmentary. mysterious. deeply human.
as much about power and belonging as about mystical vision.
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What happens when you're built for one world and find yourself living in another?
The mermaid is the part of you that understands through feeling. She knows before she can explain, and she has never been able to prove it.
The starship is where she has to live: engineered, optimized, cerebral. A place she can navigate but has never experienced as natural.
Mermaid in a Starship is a collection of field notes from between them. About loneliness and wonder. Belonging and otherness. The struggle to stay fully alive in a world you weren't designed for.
The mermaid is out of her element…which may be why she can see it at all.
How do you live here without giving up your nature?
Jessica Ann is a poet, strategist, and mystic. she writes about resonance, consciousness, and the sensory experience of Being Human. for founders and seekers between identities, ideas, or worlds. she started in newsrooms in washington, dc: nbc, msnbc, siriusxm — learning narrative from an early age.
today she writes on her substack, frequency field, hosts the art of humanity, and works with founders and world-class brands on their story. she lives in san diego two blocks from the ocean.
mermaid in a starship is her first book in ten years.
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