Your Mercy, My Gallows

In the shadow of a landmark ruling that struck down a controversial immigration statute, the ghost of an undocumented immigrant named Luca Reyes narrates his own murder. He speaks directly to you, the reader, whose outrage and sympathy became the weapon that killed him. Set in the fictional Aurelian Commonwealth, this psychological thriller inspired by the Sineneng-Smith case peels back layers of judicial overreach, public fervor, and a charismatic activist’s hidden cruelty. As the dead man reconstructs the trial, the appeal, and the aftermath, a chilling truth emerges: the story of justice you cheered for was the blueprint for his slow, exquisite destruction. Revenge is not a cathartic climax here—it is a spiral of despair, where every revelation tightens the noose of your own complicity.