Another Snippet

It's fine to create a hero who seeks the One. It's cruel to create a world for said hero and populate it with only the wrong ones. It's something I'm toying with as my story slowly progresses. I finally broke the 10,000-word mark yesterday. It's amazing (and scary) how much I can write without a real plot.

I have been unusually cruel to my characters, placing them in awkward situations, making them uncomfortable and causing them to squirm. It's similar to the way people mistreat their Sims by removing all of the toilets.

My main character, who remains unnamed and known only as MC (main character), has suffered the most. I almost wish I hadn't placed so much of myself in him. Almost. Anyway, here is another snippet from "Huh?"...

MC walked into the cafe, surveyed the room from the door and immediately spotted SK (sidekick), who was sitting on the plastic-covered sofa and browsing a magazine. He glanced over at the corner table where She normally sat, but was disappointed to see she wasn't there. An unknown man, who would be too much trouble to describe, occupied her chair instead.

He gave a nod to Fred, who was sporting a blue goatee and orange dreadlocks. Fred nodded in return and casually served up a cup of steaming hot coffee like it was a shuffleboard weight. The brown cup and saucer slowly rotated as it slid smoothly across the waxed counter and onto the floor, shattering upon impact. Nobody looked up.

Fred smiled sheepishly and gingerly carried the next cup over to the coffee table, taking great pains to place it on a coaster. MC thanked him and flopped himself down on the sofa beside SK.

Gazing thoughtfully out the large picture window, he asked, "Don't you wish the writer would give us more meaningful lines of dialogue?"

SK took a sip of his chai soy latte and reluctantly looked up from his magazine, which he read strictly for the articles. He lazily stared out the window, paused for effect and replied, "Nah. Who wants to hear us pontificate or go on about our angst? I say, give us more action! Give us more smut!"