This book was started after many trials at the end of a few bottles. Something was needed to overcome the burdens that were dealing their shame daily, and writing helped by accident. There never was an original concept to start with; only free writing that evolved to something greater. After a few pages, I realized that something was being born, so I put the booze down and let my fingers be drunk with literature. As the author, I have spent a few years living in many countries around the world from Korea to France, and most of the states in between, allowing the stories of people I would travel with to become inspirations in the future. After reading other great works, from Orwell to Hugo to Hawthorne and Poe, I came to understanding that language, as well as literature, evolves and develops with the times. This 'hobby,' as it once was, has now become a passion that I cannot contain, and became the needed remedy for the qualms that I, and many others, could use some relief from.