To get caught up and understand all that's going on here, please read the blog entry introducing this fiction series and Episode 1.
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One thing Max knew, and had known since he had gotten his driver’s license: he sucked as a passenger. “Paranoid” wasn’t a good word to even start describing how he was when he had to buckle into the passenger seat. He liked control. Most cops do. He didn’t mind giving up control to someone who drove in a reasonably sound fashion. Today though, and for the past couple days, he’d been riding with his squad sergeant. Sgt. Henry Daniels (either “Sarge” or “Henry”) must have learned to drive in a horse-drawn buggy to Max’s way of thinking. Sarge’s driving scared hell out of Max.
It had been several days now, since Eddie was on light duty and assigned to the Chief’s office. Max was going cross-eyed doing paperwork for the whole squad. He knew it wasn’t anything unusual, but Sarge wanted him to do as much paperwork as many times as possible to make sure he had it done right and without any questions. In the past few days Max had written more than a dozen traffic accidents, several breaking & enterings, several stolen property reports and a slew of citations. Sarge loved to pull people over and he was notorious for writing any and every violation he could find. In fact, Sarge had once bragged about how, for two years running, “back in the day,” he had held the department record for most tickets written for the year. Max thought it was kind of frivolous, but The Sarge out ranked him and had the power to screw up Max’s career with a few negative notes, so Max kept his mouth shut and did what he was told. It wasn’t forever.
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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.
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