Mermaid

Ten-year-old Cassius knows exactly who she is – Cass. The world just hasn’t caught up yet. Since losing her only ally, her mother, Cass has been drowning in her own life. Her father doesn’t understand her. When the noise becomes unbearable, she turns to the one place that always made sense – a nearby lake. Calm…Quiet…Hers. Until the day she walks in with no plan to walk back out. But there is a witness who saves her: Pepper, a drag queen unraveling in her right, drowning out her own sorry by the lake at the wrong hour, or maybe exactly the right one. An uplifting story of finding and accepting oneself.

Warning: Suicidal Ideation.