Tim Pompey is a news writer and poet living along California’s Central Coast. He was awarded the Still Waters Press Winter Poetry Award 2000 for his chapbook Getting Through the Fog. His poems have appeared in journals such as BorderSenses and Rivertalk, and anthologies such as Poems for the Mountains and The Venomed Kiss. His previous collections of short stories, One Side Leads to the Other and Burnt by Sun, are currently available on Amazon. This is Mr. Pompey’s first novel.