Visits From The Drowned Girl

Description for VISITS FROM THE DROWNED GIRL by Steven Sherrill: Benny Poteat is, among other things, a tower jockey, his life defined by up or down. Working hundreds of feet in the air repairing tension lines and replacing burned-out lightbulbs, he observes the world from above. Benny has seen a lot of things from this vantage point, but nothing can compare to watching a girl die. She approaches the river that snakes far below him, sets up a video camera, and walks purposefully into the rushing water, never to reappear. Startled at both what he?ÇÖs witnessed and his inability to prevent it, Benny hurries down the tower to the scene of her death. What he does next will forever alter the course of his life: He does nothing. He gathers up the drowned girl?ÇÖs belongings and doesn?ÇÖt tell a soul what he saw. Instead, Benny visits the address on a business card he finds in the drowned girl?ÇÖs bag and slowly insinuates himself into the life she once lived. But even as he immerse