Welcome to this weekend’s snippetry!
This promises to be a fun but busy weekend at Casa Des. Saturday I’ll be volunteering with a group of attorneys to help local folks with their citizenship paperwork, and Sunday is my birthday, in which I’ll be completing forms for my upcoming novel, The Nesting Habits of Strange Birds! Habitual snippeteers may remember Phil and Lee. If not, you’ll be meeting them again fairly soon. 😀
Today’s snippet is the last tease I’ll be sharing from my “Don’t Read in the Closet” story, Better Than New. The story isn’t very long, and I don’t want to give too much away.This takes up immediately after last week’s and concludes the first section. (To find all snippets for my Love’s Landscapes story, click here.)
He goaded me on, bouncing on the balls of his feet like a dancer. The chains around his neck caught the light and flashed in my eyes. I bounced the cup in the palm of my hand a few times. That seemed to make him happier, so I gathered all my disappointment, pictured it filling up the cup, and threw the cup onto the grate.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to look—even the guy on the tiny stage stopped reading his excruciatingly beautiful poetry about how much it hurts to be in love. Ben raised his hand to high-five me, but I stared at the broken, useless shards scattered around the grate. He bent to put his face in front of mine, and his smile let me breathe normally again.
He ruffled my hair and turned to the counter to help a customer.
Thanks for reading!
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Charley Descoteaux 
Happy Birthday when it comes xxxx
Thanks Shey! *hugs*
Glad he did it. He needed to.
DT
Thanks for visiting, Dakota! 🙂
So touching!
Evelise
Thanks, Evelise! 🙂
It’s funny how breaking things makes you feel better sometimes. Good for him that he had Ben there to help him through it.
And happy birthday to you tomorrow! ❤
I used to throw things in anger and frustration a little too much. It stopped when I accidentally broke an album against the side of the neighbor’s house because I thought the sleeve was empty. *lol*
Thanks! 🙂
happy early birthday 🙂 sounds like a great weekend. And such a beautiful, emotional snippet 🙂
Thanks, Joelle! It’s been good so far. 🙂
Awwww…. I love Ben!
Thanks, Paula! He’s been fun to write. I’m going to miss him and Theo when I turn in the story–which is probably one reason I keep holding onto it! 🙂
I wonder what just happened.
Happy Birthday, Charley!!
And please tell me where to find this story when it’s out (Is it out?), because I want more Ben. 🙂
Thanks, Sarah! 🙂
The story will be free on the Goodreads MM Romance Group, sometime after June. I’ll be sure & let everyone know when it goes up. And, um, it has a lot more Ben, if you know what I mean. *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*
I love the image of the broken shards scattered around … and love the words “how much it hurts to be in love”
Thanks, EE! It’s very short, so everything has to pull its weight. 🙂
Great snippet–love the descriptions.
Happy Birthday! I’m still cringing just a bit at breaking perfectly good cups but I’ll accept that it works fine in the story! Best wishes 🙂
Happy Birthday! Have a good one.
Know what? I was actually holding my breath as I read it. Didn’t realize it until it came out in a whoosh afterwards. Great stuff. 😀