Bear witness to these 4 books that each house 31 stories broken and twisted, dismembered from their bodies and reassembled intricately, as life is taken and given, leaving them to resemble something that was never meant to be. For these stories you hold here, all began life as a shard, a snippet of a grander idea. An idea now fleshed out before you in a somewhat gruesome manner, much like a hunter skinning the flesh from his prey.