Ethereal Pixie Rings of Mercy is a fascinating story about mathematician David's life-long work to prove specific concepts about life and afterlife, and what becomes of that work. As the disease that took the lives of many of his family members comes to take David as well, he seeks out his former protege Naila to continue his research after he departs from the realm of the living. But after David dies, he finds himself in an afterlife that he thought didn't exist; everything he knew and believed in while living is contradicted in his new existence, known as the grid. Earth and the grid are apparently linked, and David struggles to understand and adapt to this new reality. What he learns is eye-opening, and leads him to question other things from his time on Earth. What will become of his daughter Angelique, who must face down the same disease that took David's life? And what further progress will Naila be able to make on the work that David started?
The twists and turns on David's new path of discovery will keep readers in anticipation of what happens next in this novelette.