14 Hours of Saturn

Two weeks ago, on her 24th birthday,

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14 Hours of Saturn

Two weeks ago, on her 24th birthday, Saturn O Syres moved to a new apartment, in a new city, about 125 miles away from where she grew up. It’s Saturday, and she starts her new dream job on Monday. She had plans for outdoor activities to spend the day, but the weather had other ideas for her.

Spend the day with Saturn as she reminisces about growing up in Northwest Indiana with loving, supportive, and sometimes too lenient parents, along with an overbearing big sister named Venus. Her youth was filled with craft sticks, magazine ads, a creative mind, and enough bad decisions to last her a lifetime. She reflects on this while discovering new and wonderful things about the city she now calls home. Will it be the dream she kept having, or another dead-end road for her?

This was written by the same author who wrote the Afternoon Rebecca series. It is not a part of that series, but it is in the same universe.

🧐What readers say about the book

This is a very enjoyable read - Kizman has a great understanding of how to make mundane routine interesting and leaves the reader curious enough to want to know “What’s next?”. Saturn’s 14 hours are a blend of her rainy day activities combined with memories of her childhood and school years. Her relationship with her 13-month-older sister, Venus, is complicated as the two have opposite personalities. Venus lauds her status as older sister over Saturn. Saturn dresses very casually, is not very interested in dating, and has a very creative imagination. Venus is vain, dresses to impress the males around her and chooses accounting as her interest in school and later majors in that in college. Saturn pours over Venus’s fashion magazines; not for the latest styles, but to critique the advertising techniques used. This leads to an interest in marketing, her major in college. Since the age of 6, Saturn has built boxes using craft sticks (what most people think of as popsicle sticks) and continues this throughout young adulthood, eventually selling her creations at craft fairs. Saturn also develops a talent for mimicking voices, a skill she utilizes to great benefit in high school and in her marketing job upon completion of college. The sibling rivalry is constant in “14 Hours of Saturn,” as are the routines of Saturn as she settles into a new apartment in a new town, beginning a new career. In the course of this book, Saturn gains a pet, finds a man she is genuinely interested in, finds her spiritual side, and we see the eventual resolution of the conflict between the two sisters. Mike J. Kizman has a writing style that reads easily, develops his characters well, and makes seemingly-boring routines of Saturn’s day engaging.

Theresa G

(Amazon Review)

About The Author

Mike J Kizman

Mike J. Kizman was born in and lived all of his life in Northwest Indiana. He has been married for over 30 years and has one daughter away at college. Mike has always been the creative type, being the author of many unpublished short stories and poetry. He is also a visual artist who creates mainly landscapes using acrylic paint on canvas or colored pencils. His work in that medium can be found at Simply99 Creations on Facebook and Instagram.

When Mike isn’t creating, he can often be found walking his terrier mix dog, Kardashian, which he adopted from a shelter when the dog was seven years old. He volunteers working many different children’s programs and is an award-winning Girl Scouts leader who led his daughter to earning the prestigious Girl Scouts Gold Award.

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