Mercy

by Flavia Idà

How far would you go to heal someone’s pain?

After years of watching innocent people suffer, a psychiatric nurse makes it her mission to help the most hopeless of her patients — in a way no one will ever suspect.

20 pages, ebook

Published July 15, 2017

About the author

Flavia Ida` was born and raised in Arena di Calabria, Italy, and studied the Classics and European Literature at the University of Naples. At 28 she moved to San Francisco, where she learned English by watching children's television programs with her 4-year-old son Adam. In 1984 she graduated summa cum laude in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, where she also obtained her Master's and taught Creative Writing. Her poetry has appeared in several literary magazines, and she is the winner of the Emily Dickinson Award sponsored by the Poetry Society of America. "The Iron and the Loom" is her first novel. Her second novel, "The Names of Heaven" is due out in summer 2014, also from Hunt Press of Los Angeles.