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Clean Freak

Sean M. Davis (2013)

SubgenreSoft SF / Social SF
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
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Meet Clarence. He’s the introverted, nerdy, obsessive-compulsive-disorder-stricken evening shift janitor for the Haimes office building in Southfield, Michigan. A homely misfit, he cleans everywhere he goes, feverishly fearful of the unseen germs festering everywhere all around him, the lines between sanitization and sanity broken and blurred. One night, after a long shift of scrubbing and dusting and mopping, only to arrive home and scrub some more, he hears the voice of a little girl coming from his shower drain. Her name is Lucy. She’s crying, she’s lonely, she needs a friend. It is not long afterwards that Clarence’s obsession twists and delves down a violent path of madness…..