title: An Accidental Memoir: How I Killed Someone and Other Stories
author:  Wendy Reed 
description: "By any measure, Wendy Reed has a compelling story to share. On May 28, 1996, her Mitsubishi Montero hydroplaned off I-65 at mile marker 251.7, striking an oncoming 1988 Camry. The author and her youngest child were uninjured, but the accident claimed the life of the other driver. If this books power rested simply in the pathos of the situation, however, it wouldnt leave the deep impression it does. The real beauty is in the writing. Theres nothing accidental about An Accidental Memoir -- its a fantastic, moving expression of craft and insight." Kirk Curnutt, author of Breathing Out the Ghost <br /> "There are not many people who would have the courage to tell this story -- and even fewer writers with the talent and integrity to pull it off. I am in awe of Wendy Reed." Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize winning author <br /> "Memoirs address all kinds of scars, but few so real as this. Wendy Reed writes chillingly about how fast life can change, and end, on a piece of asphalt." Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and bestselling author
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be
  construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locations, organizations,
  or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
  World Castle Publishing, LLC
  Pensacola, Florida
  Copyright © Kathi S. Barton 2018
  Paperback ISBN: 9781629899589
  eBook ISBN: 9781629899596
  First Edition World Castle Publishing, LLC, July 23, 2018
  http://www.worldcastlepublishing.com
  Licensing Notes
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any
  manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief
  quotations embodied in articles and reviews.
  Cover:  Karen Fuller
  Editor:  Maxine Bringenberg
  
  Table of Contents
   
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  Chapter 14
  Epilogue
  Kathi Barton
  
  Chapter 1
   
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