Donna Stuccio writes great cop stories. This is one! Terrific opening: Gina, wearing dress blues, encounters Danny, another police officer, who’s relieving himself in a sink. Great setting: church basement, a funeral for a fellow officer going on above them. Dialogue is sharp, snappy, and quickly gives us the picture about a relationship that’s gone wrong. But then (Is it really God and the Virgin Mary interceding?) the ground shifts, and we’re left with a beautifully unresolved but hopeful ending. No deux ex machina here – Stuccio gives a story that feels all too real. Fantastic!
Donna Stuccio writes great cop stories. This is one! Terrific opening: Gina, wearing dress blues, encounters Danny, another police officer, who’s relieving himself in a sink. Great setting: church basement, a funeral for a fellow officer going on above them. Dialogue is sharp, snappy, and quickly gives us the picture about a relationship that’s gone wrong. But then (Is it really God and the Virgin Mary interceding?) the ground shifts, and we’re left with a beautifully unresolved but hopeful ending. No deux ex machina here – Stuccio gives a story that feels all too real. Fantastic!