book idea

I'm seriously kicking around the idea of publishing a book titled 'snapshots'. It'll just be snippets out of people's lives, the longest being maybe 5 or 6 pages in length, and the shortest, a couple sentances. Its just little tastes of different things. Some will be fantasy. Some won't be. Some will be from my experiences. They aren't cyptic messages or anything, so please don't read into them - its really just all those characters in my head trying to beat the snot out my poor cerebellum!

Anyway - its just a photo albumn, of different things, to make you think; to give you the choice continue the story, or the choice to enjoy it for what it simply is.

Here's one of them - probably one of the shorter ones. But just think...and please give critique. I need to know other opinions.


.::Earl Grey Tea::.

There he was, and there he would always be, even when he passed out of her view and into another world. He’d sit in his corner with his tea, his Earl Grey, and read the paper wit his mouth pressed in a grim line. Or he’d watch people passing by on the dreary, rain-lined streets, his lips still no more than a horizontal slit. She liked to just sit and study his face. He had a perfect nose that looked as if it could have belonged to a Greek statue. And his chestnut hair was always meticulously parted at the left; his clothes, somber in hue, pressed with care. But when he spoke, and this was rare, it was as if the stern silence which he kept as his sole companion had been temporarily imprisoned behind velvet curtains; his black eyes would sparkle and a husky voice would resonate from his chest, through that mouth, sometimes with the shadowy presence of a smile. He’d talk, barely above a whisper with whoever had intruded upon his strange solitude. After a few moments, though he would lose interest in his light conversation, a poorly masked look of anguish would cross his features, and then he’d be back to sipping his tea, and reading the news, or watching those pass by outside.

For this, she loved him from afar.