Oceanside Chronicles-PD: Season 1 Episode 1

April 29, 2015
Enjoy this new fiction series based on actual events and set in the fictional city of Oceanside, Virginia.

The sun shone brightly on that Friday afternoon in May.  New police officer Maximillian Jason Breaklin – “Max” to his family and “Break” to his friends/workmates – stood at attention, in formation with his classmates, listening as the Academy Graduation Ceremony program unfolded.  Occasionally allowed to stand at parade rest, Max remembered a few of those who started out in his class but who didn’t make it all the way through for various reasons.  Some lasted days; some lasted weeks.  Several of them, he thought, wouldn’t have been able to stand in formation for the time it would take the academy leadership to make their speeches before certificates of graduation and badges were handed out.

The Academy Commanding Officer (ACO) took the stage after the National Anthem had been sung by one of Max’s classmates and the Pledge of Allegiance had been said.  As the ACO began his typical litany about challenges faced and overcome by the recruits, Max let his mind drift back over the events in his life that he felt had led him to this moment…

Adopted as an infant into a family of financial managers, Max couldn’t remember a time when his father hadn’t voiced the expectation that Max would follow the family footsteps.  That meant going to private schools and eventually a good college and entering the family business until the day he would take it over – and then pass it along to his oldest son, as had four generations of Breaklin before him.  When Max became a junior volunteer firefighter at the age of 14, his father had expressed surprise by tolerance.  After all, it was good for a young man to perform a little community service before living off money made with other people’s money.  When Max became an Emergency Medical Technician three years later – still heavily involved in the firehouse activities and responding to calls – Max’s father made it clear that this trivial involvement would have to stop once college started so Max could focus on what was important.  Max fondly remembered the times he spent away from “the ancestral home,” as his father referred to it, camping and hunting in the forests nearby.  He enjoyed nature and felt challenged when he wasn’t living in the posh family environment.

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All of Season 1 of The Oceanside Chronicles, including officer survival notes and an alphabetical list of characters can be purchased as an anthology on Amazon.com via Amazon Prime.
http://amzn.to/2du9jDO

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