Mercy (A Southern Gothic Short Story)    by Rachelle Taylor
Price: $0.99 USD. 5860 words. Published on June 16, 2012. .
In this Southern Gothic short, a sheltered, impoverished teenager seeks to impress a neighbor boy, with destructive results. This story explores poverty, neglect, mental illness, and misogyny in rural Appalachia. This story originally appeared in Printer's Devil Review.