MERCY

Mercy has so many brothers and sisters she doesn't know about and in her dreams she sees them.

Mercy has had so many brothers and sisters but her mother got rid of them all.

When Mercy was little she tried to set her childhood home on fire.

Mercy's father ignored it.

Mercy used to cut herself into five pieces every night and lay a piece of herself on every nightstand in the house. Sometimes her father would eat a piece before bed like a communion, like a pill. Sometimes her father would eat a piece after dinner before she had given a piece of herself to everyone else because he was selfish sometimes. Sometimes Mercy's father wanted all of her Mercy and so he would take four pieces and line them up like sushi and eat one slowly, a truffle or dessert, like a decadance. Sometimes Mercy's father would eat none of them and stare at them all night. Those are the nights he did not sleep well. Those are the nights that sleep never came for anyone in the house because everyone needed a piece of Mercy.

But when the brothers and sisters multipled there would not be a enough of Mercy to go around and so Mercy would have to cut herself up into even smaller pieces but those would not be enough to satisfy so she would hear her brothers and sisters moan and wail all night until they got more which wouldn't be until the next night.

On normal nights there was plenty of Mercy to go around so she would cut herself into five pieces, one for her father, one for her mother, one for her brother, one for herself and one for caroline, she would place it on her windowsill and wait for her to arrive and if she didn't she would have a stockpile of pieces of Mercy at her disposal.