Souls of Fire

Souls of Fire is a story of four friends: John Graham, Kurt Bowden, Jerry Rawlings and Henry Burke, four artists who grew up in a city where it’s expected that you graduate from school, get married, go to work in the factories, be thankful if you could get a life at least as good as your old man had and never think you’re worth any more than that. 


In an unflinching, street-level style, Souls of Fire chronicles the four as they enter their “Summer of Destiny” where they find their lives at the point where they must decide whether to risk it all for their dreams knowing they are promised nothing, or stay in the safety of a life lived by their fathers before them. 


Using personal experiences from his own beginnings, W. A. Heisler deftly chronicles the psychological wars against inner demons and outside pressures, capturing the loneliness, despair, doubts and the indomitable will of those who refuse to be chained.


Souls of Fire is a story written by an artist for artists. It is a story written for those who are just beginning, those who have tried, those who live everyday lives wondering if it’s not too late. 


Souls of Fire is a story written for anyone who still holds the inner courage to look into the storm that is Life, raise their fist and scream that they lived, they mattered . . . 

And they will not be forgotten.