Tom Spanner is stuck in a mundane job and haunted by memories of his dead baby brother, Little Norman. Unable to deal with his loss, he leaves for Big Town.Decades earlier, Michael Parrish wakes up in bed with his fourteen-year-old sister, Jennifer. He is seventeen years old. She is fourteen and dead. And he can't stop grinning.When Tom makes his way to Big Town, these two anguished souls meet. Tom can only guess at the darkness of Michael's past, as he struggles to overcome his own grief.
There are some people who glide across life's surface like a breeze. For them, there is no pain, and there is no terror. But for others-like Tom Spanner and Michael Parrish-there can be only a constant striving for hope and redemption. "A Cleansing of Souls" tells their story.