SHARDS, by Ismet Prcic, is a fictional memoir in which memory is shown to be fragmented. In addition to these shards of memory, existence of two parallel realities, of Mustafa Nalic and of Ismet Prcic, eventually merging into one with extreme overlaps is presented to readers with no definitive conclusion. This decision by the author forces readers to change their responsibility from bring just observers to being an active part in the story, in this case readers themselves are given responsibilities of collating shards together to get a more clearer picture of the story. In an attempt to collate shards, readers form theories to better understand the story, and these conclusions are nothing more than just theories since the readers are no longer
