Closure — Charles Brass

Twenty-one-year-old Whicker Campbell's family is crumbling around him. A heart attack claimed his father, and a car crash killed his sister. Now, stuck in a job he hates, tending to dead spirits, his dream of being a meteorologist crushed, he now must deal with his grief-stricken mother whose spell on him is stealing his life-energy in a bid to stay alive herself. He has mere weeks left to live when he concocts a desperate plan using a dead nine-year-old girl to bring his mother closure and save them both from starving to death.