The stories and such like collected in this book were written between 1989 and 2007. Within those 18 years I grew from a teenage schoolboy to a college graduate to a young adult in the corporate workforce, going onto to spend the better half of a decade as a journalist, and finally moving into corporate roles. The stories are of different places, different times, different societies, and yet they are all about human experience as seen from within and expressed as a continuous dialogue with self. The liberties with language, form, syntax and the like are deliberate mostly, but having said that: all errors are entirely my own doing.