Tim Schell is the co-author of Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Fiction and Poetry and the co-editor of the anthology A Writer's Country. He won the 2004 Mammoth Book Award for Prose for his novel The Drums of Africa, which will be published this fall by Mammoth Books. He teaches at Columbia Gorge Community College and serves on the Board of Directors of the Mountain Writers Series. "Road to the Sea" is the opening chapter of a novel of the same name.