Your Life is a Movie...No One Else is Watching It

We’re All Just Bumping Bubbles

Everyone lives in their own private bubble. Inside yours? Thoughts, grudges, your personal ranking of which relatives you’d let into the lifeboat if you were on the Titanic.

We think we share reality with people we know—family, friends, the spouse we’ve been married to for thirty years—but really, it’s just neighboring bubbles. 

Even shared memories don’t match. They remember the vacation as “relaxing.” You remember “five endless days stuck with your in-laws.”

This is a running theme in Code Name: Nobody. We see the story through three characters—JR, Toni Anne, and Pennington—each trapped in their own bubble. Sometimes their lives intersect, but they’re watching different movies. JR thinks it’s a paranoid scramble to stay alive. Toni Anne thinks it’s a high-stakes chess match. Pennington thinks it’s just another Tuesday where he might have someone killed and a chance to steal billions.

So if you’ve ever wondered why people don’t see things your way—it’s because they can’t. They’re in their own bubble, just like you. All we can do is drift close, bump for a second, and hope we’re at least in the same parade.

Above is the working version of the book cover. You may notice I've gone with "J.P. Flynn." From now on the novels will use this author name, the short funny books listed by "Jim Flynn."

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