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Hello, I'm Jillian.

I create compelling psychological stories filled with morally complex, unpredictable characters and socially conscious themes.

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ABOUT JILLIAN

JillIian Wessel is a Massachusetts- based multidisciplinary writer whose essays, fiction, short stories, and poetry explore how personal experience intersects with social and political realities.  

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A young mother wakes with no memory of the night before and a murder she was involved in—forcing her to uncover not just what happened, but who she truly is beneath the life she built.

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