Back when I started this project I was thinking what the heck writing a few short stories will keep me fresh let me try things I might not try otherwise act as a sketch book of my story ideas: the funny the weird the scary the sappy and sometimes all of that mashed up together. Well two years later I had no idea how proud I would be of this body of work and how genuinely psyched I am to be sharing these stories with you in this format. Going through these again for production I felt like a proud papa gathering up all my little babies or like I was collecting a bag of gems. Wow I just wrote “bag of gems” in all seriousness like it’s a totally everyday phrase like I might find myself out on horseback in some medieval European country and have the need to reach into my little leather sack for a gem to purchase an entire village.