I Saw Her Leave Two Children at the Gate

felt it in my knees.

Officer Bender saw my face shift. “What is it?”

I turned the rabbit carefully so he could read it.

His mouth tightened. “Jesus.”

Harper looked from one of us to the other. “He had medicine,” she said. “At the big hospital with fish on the wall.”

Children’s. I knew the place. My company had funded a wing renovation five years earlier continue reading …