Author. Officer. Speaker.
Alan Merrick
Writing from the Front Lines of Human Experience
For fifteen years, Alan Merrick has been in the rooms most people never see. As a former crisis shelter counselor and a ten-year police veteran on midnight patrol, he has sat with people at their absolute lowest and carried those stories home. Now he writes them down so the rest of the world can understand what really happens out there.
What This Book Is About?
There on Your Worst Days is a collection of true stories drawn from over fifteen years on the front lines of human struggle. From the floors of a homeless shelter to the streets of midnight patrol, Alan Merrick has sat with people at their absolute lowest. People battling addiction, mental illness, grief, and desperation. People the system failed. People who surprised him.
Some of these stories are heartbreaking. Some are darkly funny. A few are nearly impossible to believe. All of them are real.
This is not a book about a hero. It is a book about human beings and what they are capable of, both the worst and the most resilient.
Writing from the Front Lines of Human Experience
Written by Someone Who Was There
Alan Merrick spent seven years working at a homeless shelter before joining law enforcement, where he has served on midnight patrol for ten years. He writes not as an outsider looking in, but as someone who has held the knife, delivered the news, and carried the weight home.
"These stories are tragic, funny, unsettling, hopeful, frustrating, and at times unbelievable. But they are real. This is not based on a true story. This is a true story."