Welcome to this weekend’s snippetry!
Today’s snippet is another tease from my Don’t Read in the Closet story, Better Than New (someone guessed correctly,so I can use the title now :)) and continues where last week’s leaves off. We’re still with Theo and Ben in the coffeehouse. You can catch up here. The first line is Ben’s but all the strange punctuation is mine.
“Okay, now break it; throw it over there.” He pointed to the dip in the tiled floor where a grate covered a hole; the building used to be some kind of factory or warehouse, so the coffeehouse had all kinds of odd little details like that.
“It’ll make a mess.”
“May I direct your attention to the sign above the door—it doesn’t say The Broken Cup for nothing, whose place is this?”
“Yours.”
“So throw the cup onto the grate as hard as you can.” He pushed my shoulder gently and nodded toward the grate. “Stop thinking about it and do it.”
Thanks for reading!
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Charley Descoteaux 
I like the way Ben thinks, lol. And the name of the place. That place would have so many broken cups if I worked there… Anyway, great snippet. I like both of these characters and the interaction is great.
BTW, we can use our titles if they have been guessed already? And you guessed mine! 😀
Thanks! 🙂
I’m guessing it’s okay since my title is out there for anyone to see now. Yours is the only one I could figure out–I remembered seeing the pix on FB and it really fits! 😀
Great little snippet. And I hope he breaks that sucker but good.
ND
Thanks, ND! Sometimes I wish I had a tile floor and expendable cups. 🙂
Love the description of the coffeehouse and the tie in with the name. Sometimes you just have to throw something once in a while–LOL!
Thanks, Nancy! I agree, just writing it was cathartic. 😀
Bless Ben—sometimes breaking something harmless is exactly what we need to do to keep from breaking something important. He’s a keeper, all right. 😀
Well-said, Sarah! Thanks for commenting. 🙂
That’s intriguing. And I love the last sentence: “Stop thinking about it and do it.” You left it on a cliffhanger, great choice of the 8 sentences. 🙂
Thanks for stopping by, EE! 🙂
I love these two characters, especially Ben. And it’s been a while since I read it, so I may be wrong in this, but the breaking the cup thing reminds me of Callahan’s Cross Time Saloon. I seem to think they had a cup/glass breaking area too…
Thanks for visiting, Paula! I’ve never read that, so I’ll have to check it out. My TBR list can handle it! 😀
Sometimes you need a little cathartic violence to ease the chaos inside. Great snippet, Charley, and now I want to find a sign that says “The Broken Cup.” 🙂
Thanks, Siobhan! I found a coffeehouse in NYC with that name while Googling titles, but I don’t know if their sign is for sale. 😉
I have a hard time breaking anything deliberately but I can see it might be therapeutic – it’s an interesting twist at any rate. Excellent excerpt!
Great snippet. This short interaction tells us a lot about both characters.
Love the snippet–the conversation between the two is perfect. But now you got me thinking, why would anyone name a coffeehouse The Broken Cup? Is it a metaphor or an invitation?
That would be a great way to let off some steam! The Broken Cup. Sounds like an interesting place. 🙂