"The Last Cop" is Coming!

My short story, “The Last Cop,” is coming soon as part of the anthology To Serve, Protect, and Write, edited by A.B. Patterson!

The anthology is made up of crime fiction authors who also have served as law enforcement officers (either currently or retired). The editor keeps a database at his website of cops-turned-writers and drew from that list to make up the roster for this collection of short stories.

What’s my story about? Well, it is set in the near- to mid-term future, and explores what the profession might look like then…

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. 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!

Watch for this anthology any day now!

Source: All The Madness In My Soul