The Shores of Saturn

By Steven D. Bennett

In the border town of Imperial Beach, south of San Diego, a man becomes involved with a homeless kid whose only goal, besides panhandling for beer and staying stoned, is to get back to his hometown of Evanston, Illinois. The kid reminds the man of his own brother, whose life was nearly ruined by substance abuse, and so purposes to help the kid get back to his home and the family who left him. But there are people living in the homeless camp who are less welcoming, and the man finds that no good deed is ever done without evil following close behind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steven D. Bennett
• Release date: Jun 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310764066

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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THE SHORES OF SATURN

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Steven D. Bennett

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Copyright © 2016 by Steven D. Bennett

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I pulled off the five onto Palm and into the first station on the right, just past Saturn. In a world of high gas prices, this independent promised three cents less per gallon than others in the area, so to save half a buck I added my car to the line, turned up the air, leaned back in my seat and tried to forget the day.

I was working that year at a warehouse in National City just south of 24th behind Denny's. The place mainly handled Navy deliveries and mainly junk food--candy, crackers, chips—but those were the items which sold at the ship's stores and the mark-up and profits were good. Every now and then I'd get to deliver six or so pallets to one of the big ships on North Island or 32nd street pier, and there was extra money in that. A few hundred for an extra four or five hours. The boss was a jerk, of course, and the three guys I worked with not the fullest boxes on the shelf, but all easy to ignore.

A few cars vacated and I pulled up to the first pump, which meant I could get out