I Sat Alone Waiting for My Kids on My 60th Birthday Then a Police Officer Arrived With Unexpected News

was in a police car on my birthday at nine-thirty at night if no one was in danger, and he exhaled the long careful exhale of someone trying very hard not to say the wrong thing, and told me to hold on, that we were almost there.

Through the window I watched the streets of my city pass in the particular way of a city at night, everything familiar and continue reading …