Contains my award-winning story, “The Last Cop.”
Officer Ramirez is one of the last of a dying breed.
He is a cop.
Over the many decades of his long career, Ramirez has seen a great change in how the country handles crime and what it wants from its police. New approaches have replaced the old but the strength of police unions assured that he would be grandfathered in to the “old” way.
He still wears his old badge.
He still carries a sidearm.
He is still a police officer.
But he is one of the last.
This story is the final entry in the anthology from editor A. B. Patterson. It is also a story that has been simmering on my hard drive for at least fifteen years. I’m pleased that it finally found the right home!
I was also thrilled when “The Last Cop” won a 2022 PSWA Award (Honorable Mention)!
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