Splinter
A splinter is a fragment of a larger object (especially wood), or a foreign body that penetrates or is purposely injected into a body. The foreign body must be lodged inside tissue to be considered a splinter. Splinters may cause initial pain through ripping of flesh and muscle, infection through bacteria on the foreign object, and severe internal damage through migration to vital organs or bone over time.
But for some cases, a Soul can also Splinter
Causing the doppelganger effect
In fiction and folklore, a doppelgänger, doppelgaenger or doppelganger (/ˈdɒp(ə)lˌɡɛŋə/ or /-ˌɡæŋə/; German: [ˈdɔpəlˌɡɛŋɐ] ( listen), literally "double goer") is a look-alike or double of a living person who is sometimes portrayed as a harbinger of bad luck. In some traditions, a doppelgänger seen by a person's relative or friend portends illness or danger while seeing one's own doppelgänger is said to be an omen of death.
In contemporary vernacular, the word doppelgänger is often used in a more general sense to identify any person that physically or perhaps even behaviorally resembles another person.
As Free will offers up the choice which can cause a shift in the paradigm of the fabric of reality and change the very universe, thus ensuring that for every choice made it affects the world around an individual
Thus all the following tales are alternate, a different choice that one person does and the ripples it causes to their world as these stories explore what could happen...