The Watery Girl is a weird hippie novel about a seven year old girl and a ghost.

When you were a child and stood shorter than everyone else, wondering what the big words meant...you could say the words but didn’t know them...they towered above you and mingled with the strange, deep smells of grownup bodies. Those bodies betrayed you, mocked you, but sometimes they would hold you, protect you...the grownups seemed to know everything but you only knew how to say the words, not what they meant. It was like that, remember? The language was there but not the “it”ness of the thing, not the essential secret of each word. You could look at words, touch them, turn each secret word-box in your hand, but you couldn’t uncover what was inside. But children have secrets too, secrets that will show adults a forgotten box, a box that still exists and shimmers, wanting the adults to remember, to go inside and look, breathe its essence. With the child vision from the box of this novel, beckoning to adults...come here it says, discover me, I glow and I’m warm and beautiful and when you finally see me, you will remember.

The Watery Girl is literary fiction with its toes dipped in the surreal. Perception and reality intermingle in an unusual glimpse into the mind of a small child. A story within a story, it is a tale of torment in which a seven-year-old girl, abandoned by hippie parents and left to herself, discovers a world beneath the obvious. Told in third person point of view in a child’s voice, it is intended for adults, following in the tradition of books like To Kill a Mockingbird and The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time.

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