"One Side Leads to the Other" is a book of short stories by poet and musician Tim Pompey. The stories range from the humorous to the dramatic to the otherworldly. All of these stories in some form or fashion call into question one's perception of reality.

While traveling on assignment in rural Idaho to cover a news story for The Idaho Statesman, Stan Blankenship has been irresistibly drawn to Freeland, an isolated village tucked away in eastern Oregon. Now his soul is ensnared and he has been forced by Sari the ancient shaman to live and work there as the editor of the Freeland Reporter. It's a strange little town filled with magic and murder. As Stan comes to understand, people may drive into Freeland, but they don't drive out.

From fishing to love to death, the Tennessee summer can be intense. The sweat pours. The body aches. The mind bends. When you walk away, nothing looks the same. It's the heat which has changed you. It's the sun which has revealed who you are. It's life under a blistering canopy. How you survive is up to you.

It's easy to drive down a street or a highway and trust your sense of direction. You can read a map or simply have faith that you know where you're going. Except. Sometimes the sun is blinding. Sometimes the dark is too thick. Sometimes there's more to life than meets the eye. You begin at Point A and in a flash, you're off-course. You were here. Now you're there. How did this happen? Who knows? The road has curved. Your destiny's been altered. You've hit a blind spot-mind bending, life changing-and there's no going back.

Everyone at Ventura High School thinks Brandon Reese is a loser. What they don't know is that he has a secret power. Brandon can fly. He keeps his life and his power under wraps; that is until he meets J.C. Wynn, who draws him out of his shell. They become good friends. Even better, they both like Metallica. Then J.C. mysteriously disappears and Brandon is heartbroken. He makes it his mission to find out what happened to her and why, even when it means risking his life. Geek by day, bird by night. This is Brandon Reese. The boy who flies across the dark horizon in search of his girlfriend....

Primitive Terrain A book of short stories by Tim Pompey Sometimes nature is beautiful and sometimes perilous, but not nearly as dangerous or unpredictable as those people who inhabit its terrain. A narcissistic professor. A well-to-do couple. A cynical teenager. Each of them must face up to matters of life, love, and death. These stories are proof that what you encounter is not always what you see or believe. Sometimes there's more to life than reality. In these stories, humans must stretch beyond their boundaries if they hope to adapt, survive, and even find love in the vast expanses of...