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 previous collections of short stories, One Side Leads to the Other, Burnt by Sun, Blind Spot, Primitive Terrain, Deep Down, and Nebraska, as well as his novels, Freeland, Nightfly, The Perilous Paintings of Lily Day, Find Walter, Down the Road, Dream-scape, Dr. Bart's Lonely Soul Collection, and The Wild Chronicles are available on Amazon. Mr. Pompey has also written a children's book: Mrs. Parsley and the Tale of Mossel's Farm.