James Lee Proctor

The Rules of Chance James Lee Proctor

Items about car accidents occupy the tiny corners of newspapers, filler for editors who don't have room for a complete story. They remind us about how random occurrences can catch up with anyone, anytime, and the fragility of existence. Maybe it's some unnamed person, or maybe an anonymous family, who seemingly had no life before the incident, and nothing mattered afterward. Who were they? What brought them to this intersection with tragic violence? And how did it change them? These eleven stories attempt to fill those gaps.