Snapshot Stories: Every Picture Tells A Story, is a book of short stories inspired by anonymous snapshots (30 of them). WeÕve all looked at a photographÑor, art of any kindÑand attempted to decipher what we see. Snapshot Stories contains pint-sized prints scavenged from flea markets, dusty bookstores, curio shops, and other sundry places. Stripped of their original context, these images are no longer factual depictions of people and places in time. Dale CottonÑa photographer himself, as well as writer, editor, and gallery director in Seattle (cottonfoto.com)Ñenvisioned what stories these pictures could tell. Some of the vignettes are, perhaps, shocking. Others are even keeled. Still others push the reader to places he or she might not have imagined. But what is most remarkable about this bookÑwhich takes us from love to relationships gone sour, from a bygone America to World War IIÑis that each one reads as if it were true. And maybe it is.