Welcome to Mom's Diner

By Steven D. Bennett

Mom may be gone but her daughter is carrying on the legacy of Mom's Diner, a place where people can relax and have their problems solved between refills. Befriending a new customer, she senses he has a few dark secrets to hide, and before he gets the bill he'll learn that just because you get a nice smile from a pretty face in a cozy diner doesn't mean there aren't deeper things afoot.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steven D. Bennett
• Release date: Apr 25, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458183484

Steven D. Bennett

I was born in Boston and grew up in Connecticut and San Diego, which gave me a good background in both history and tanning. I have four children and six grand-children, remarkable in that I am only 35. The fact that I have been married for almost 36 years is the result of an in-utero wedding and honeymoon.I have published many short stories, poems, songs, and recently wrote and directed a musical melodrama that was performed in the San Diego area. With six books under my belt (THE PATH OF DAYS, TRACE THE DEAD EYE, HUMOR OF THE GOSPELS, HUMOR OF THE GOSPELS Daily Study, THRONE and THE CHUCK-IT LIST) I am looking for a bigger belt to stuff the seventh, which hopefully will be completed in time for the Christmas season. It is about a writer who finds to his horror that a mistake he made on page 47 completely invalidates the plot, forcing him to thus track down and kill anyone who has bought the book lest they spread the truth about his miniscule talent. It is titled DON'T READ THIS! and looks to be a best-seller, unless people take the title literally. Fortunately, nothing I write can be taken literally. It is also fortunate I did not stay with the working title: DON'T BUY THIS! Personally, I don't buy a word of it.I also have a blog, I Wandered Off the Tour: A Journey In Self-Publishing, which contains my thoughts and experiences through the tormenting process of creation.Other than writing, I like listening to the same dozen albums and re-runs of the same dozen TV shows I've heard and seen hundreds of times, to the endless delight of my wife.

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Welcome to Mom's Diner

Steven D. Bennett

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Copyright 2011 by Steven D. Bennett

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Welcome to Mom's Diner!

One? Let me grab a menu. Okay, follow me.

You're a smoker, I see, and you look like you could use a quiet booth in the corner after your long drive. Away from the light, where you can sit and watch everybody else. How about this one?

How did I know? It's no trick, really. After thirteen years in a diner you get to know people. The smoking part was easy; you've got a pack of cigarettes in your front pocket. Plus you smell smoky, if you don't mind me saying so. Oh,