Short stories tagged with Mercy

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A well-intentioned, if naive, British cleric is eager to educate a West African village about the benevolent power of God. But as slavers encroach, he begins to question his purpose as well as his humanity.

A judge notorious for his harsh rulings finds himself conflicted when his beloved daughter begs him to save her criminal husband.

Just as a teenage human boy gets used to living in a small town run by vampires, his vampire-hating father tries to drag him into an extreme plan involving even more supernatural forces.

As a man waits in jail for the next stage in his journey through the justice system, he lives through visions of what the justice system could be in parallel universes, only to wake up and realize he can only exist in one system.

After a hurricane destroys a man’s island vacation spot, a guest with AIDS offers to save his family business in exchange for a controversial act of mercy.

A thirteen year old boy's grandfather tells his harrowing wartime story once again--this time in the darkness of his closet.

The Thirteen Mercies were given to Moses to rid the world of sin. But in a dystopian world, a group of soldiers used the powers of the Reversed Thirteen Mercies to commit war crimes. Now, imprisoned on a hostile jungle island, they await their judgement. The Thirteen Mercies, granted to mankind by God, promises to rid the humanity of sin. But in a dystopian world, a group of soldiers are imprisoned on a jungle island for using defiled spells of the Reversed Thirteen Mercies to commit war crimes.