No More

by Aiden Merchant

Ellie has been treated like trash ever since marrying her husband. He cheats on her, abuses her, kicks her out on the streets...and Ellie can no longer take it.

NO MORE is a very short story featured in Aiden Merchant's collection, DEAD AS SOON AS BORN. It is an exercise in the brevity of emotional reaction.

8 pages, ebook

First published May 15, 2019

About the author

Aiden Merchant is the author of more than a hundred stories spanning numerous collections, including Sickness is in Season, Documenting Dreadful Existences, Dead as Soon as Born, Kill for Them, and his extreme horror debut Horrific Holidays. He is also the author of several novellas and screenplays. In late 2021, he published and edited Milk Teeth by Andrew Post, as well as a dark fiction anthology Blackberry Blood, which he worked on with author Julia C. Lewis. His short fiction has appeared in Wild Violence, Pulp Harvest, and Slice of Paradise.

Reviews

[Hayla · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’m impressed that Merchant was able to write a complete story in so few words!