The Gravity of Mercy

by K. Apollo Walker

He came to the edge to die. The dead came to change his mind. On a cold October night, a recently separated father climbs over the railing of the Kiskatinaw Bridge. His hands are bleeding. His wedding ring is gone. Below him, his cigarette falls and disappears into the black water of the high someone grabs his wrist.
It isn't a police officer.
It isn't another person.
It is the spirit of someone he the course of one impossible night, three ghosts visit him, each forcing him to confront a different part of the life that brought him to the first shows him what happened.
The second shows him what he became.
The third shows him what will happen if he lets none of them will allow him to die...Yet.