Soul Stories; because they have soul; because they are real. Because they are a part of me, of who I am; because they reach out and softly touch someone's life; somehow, sometime, somewhere. The collection is inspired by the patchwork of people from all walks of life that fate has brought my way, with whom I have chanced to cross paths, who have until now dwelt somewhere in the deepest crevices of my mind. I have shaken them loose, dusted out the cobwebs, added colour and conjured up silent tongues that speak with words blotted over pages of white and black. To all those wonderful people...I...