Goodreads asked Kelly Antoine:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Kelly Antoine Most of my writing is pulled from real-life experiences. A Mercy Killing is something of an abbreviated reflection on my deployment to Kuwait. While we were there I had a lot of conversations with the Chaplain. We talked about the difference between law - which is really just a system of rules for maintaining order - and morality, which is more about what is right or wrong, regardless of what the law says. We also had a dead horse outside post. I saw it dragged across the desert (much like the narrator describes it in the story). The image stuck with me for some time. I wanted to find a way to weave together those discussions about law and morality and the sad story of that horse, which is how A Mercy Killing ultimately came together.

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