Days of Wildfires, or (The End of My Father’s Drug-Addicted Life)

The mountains were on fire, and I drove as Amanda rode beside me. The smell of burning forests penetrated every gap it could find in Black Betty, my 2012 Chevy Impala, the first car I ever bought on my own. Black Betty had done her fair share of trips into the Cumberland Gap since March 2014, when I first bought her. From my hometown of Clinton, Tennessee, through the Powell River Valley, and into Tazewell, Tennessee, where my Dad had been arrested multiple times on various drug-related charges. <a href="https://medium.com/the-memoirist/days-of-wildfires-or-the-end-of-my-fathers-drug-addicted-life-1fbec983b5e7">Learn More</a>