Zebras, by Stacy Woodson

"Zebras," by Stacy Woodson, in The Tattered Blue Line: Short Stories of Contemporary Policing, edited by Frank Zafiro, Code 4 Press, 2022.

An epistolary story set in a school  Makes me think of Up the Down Staircase.  But this one uses mostly email instead of memos.

K-9 Officer Bradley is assigned to an elementary school as a resource officer, largely because his charge,k Boomer, flunked his test as a drug-sniffing dog.  Now Bradley is using the pooch to try to make connections with the kids.  And Boomer starts getting disturbing letters from a third-grader.  Is she just having every-day kid problems or is something much more serious going on?

This story is something different and I enjoyed it a lot.