Caro had never seen
Geela's dog ...

But within a couple of days, word had gotten around about the woman with the dog who wasn't there, because Geela took her invisible dog with her everywhere.
        "Here, Fluff. Good Fluff. Stay, just for a minute."
        Then, if a car came along, it was "Stay!" in a much sharper tone.
        And then, "Good girl. Good Fluffers."

People began to wink at each other when she came along.
        But not everybody. Bert Cummings, at the general store, was not about to tell just anybody, but he could almost swear he had seen a black dog, somewhere between smallish and midsize, beside her. Kind of hazy, shadowy, with weird eyes.
        He told this to Fran Perkins, who was known to be strange. She wore gauzy dresses and long scarves. Her sand-colored hair hung, wildly curly, around her shoulders. Outside her door was a sign with a lilac hand. Curvy purple letters spelled out "palms read". Golden stars twinkled just past the end of each finger.
        Now, leaning forward on the counter of the general store, she nodded at Bert. She had seen the dog too, she let him know. "One brown eye, and one half-blue eye. And a tail held high, almost as big as the dog. Fluffy tail."
        Bert did not feel comfortable being cozy like this with Fran, because he liked to think of himself as very levelheaded and no-nonsense. But he was relieved as well. So he was not the only one who had seen what he was sure could not be there.

One other person had seen the dog - Doug Janoschevic, and he knew better than to talk about it. Biking down main street with Ron Hawkins, he had seen a smallish black dog with a white splash on its chest and a huge bushy tail, looking right at him, smiling a dog smile, tongue out on one side, eyes keen. The splash looked like a bird flying off. The dog wasn't looking just at him, but at everyone. Doug looked back, slowed down fast.
        Ron almost plowed into him, "Hey, dorkface, watch where you're going." Then, "What is it?"
        The dog was sitting, ears upraised, eyes eager, beside a woman wearing jeans.
        Ron took a look, saw a woman looking in a shop window. "Hey, nutcase, are you looking at that? She's old enough to be your mother."

Preteen girl and ghost dog story. Frendship, mystery. Questions: What is real?

The Fluffers Book

Just what is this preteen girl and ghost dog story about?
Most, this preteenage girl and ghost dog story is about a ghost dog.

But it's hard for Caro to think of Fluffers as a ghost.
She thinks of Fluffers as invisible - because that's what Fluffers is, to her anyway.
And as Caro finds out, Fluffers is dead. That would make Fluffers a ghost.
So this preteen girl and ghost dog story is about a dog that is a ghost dog,
but that no one talks about as a ghost dog.

There is more to this preteen girl and ghost dog story.
Caro is asking herself questions about what is real.
She stopped believing in the tooth fairy long ago.
But what about Fluffers? Is Fluffers real?
How can one tell - especially if someone else sees Fluffers, but Caro can't?

In this preteen girl and ghost dog story, Caro wonders a lot.
Like, is Geela nuts?
And what about flaky Fran who reads palms and is always acting as if she talks to spirits
the way other people talk on the phone.

Like so many people asking questions, in this preteen girl and ghost dog story,
Caro can't get answers that make sense to her from anyone.
The grownups around her have such definite - and totally different - opinions.
You wouldn't believe they were living on the same planet, from the way they talked.
God plans everything out. There is no god.
Spirits float around everywhere. All this stuff about ghosts and spirits is hogwash.

In this preteen girl and ghost dog story, Caro Carolina looks for answers over and over.
She wishes everything was simple, the way it used to be when she was sure the tooth fairy was real.
But it isn't.

The Fluffers Book -
a preteen girl and ghost dog story for all ages.

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