Noreen Hyde is an English teacher whose work has appeared in Artlines2 and The Plaid Horse. She lives in Durham, New Hampshire, with her husband, daughters, dog, and rescued guinea pig.
Nationwide that year, 128 officers were killed in the line of duty. My father is number 87 in the official report, arranged chronologically by death date. When it arrived in the mail, glossy and sleek like a new car...