Magistrate

By Austine Norwood

Take a trip to Daleville, as everyday people form lines in a courthouse to have their daily problems heard and resolved by an unusual court official. The eligibility to speak to the Magistrate is simple yet strangely immoral — a resident must have accomplished ten goals. It's become a way of life in this simple town that things once considered good is now evil and vice versa.

Bernie Baldwin has been before the Magistrate so many times that the frumpy man can't recall the last time he ironed out his own problems. Today, he steps into the courtroom prepared to once again have his issue fixed and for the first time he gets denied. Whatever will a man who's never handled his own misgivings and poor decisions do? He pleads his case.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austine Norwood
• Release date: Sep 20, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463190852

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Magistrate

Copyright © 2019 Austine Norwood

First edition 2019

Edited by Michael Beam

Cover Design by Pixel Studio

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He had five wives, and not one of them had lost the baby weight from the combined total of nine children. However, that wasn’t the reason why perspiration was forming on Bernie’s balding scalp. The line was always long to get into the courtroom to see the Magistrate, and perhaps this over-packed lobby is what causes the temperature to be so high in the area. At least that is what Bernie always figured—inside the courtroom, it was freezing. As much as the residents paid in taxes, one would logically assume maintenance could regulate the