"The best way, whenever possible, is to begin in media res, that is, in the middle of the action."
Assignment: use a character and write a short excerpt of a scene in media res. (250 words or less.)
The broken tea cup sat, sides blown out and the handle lying inches away on the carpet. Minnie gently scooped her fingers beneath one of the larger bits of broken class, lifting it up, staring down at the shattered form in transfixed horror.
"What is it?" her husband's voice came, inquisitive, and he adjusted the frames of his glasses to examine the broken pieces before her. The sun glinted off the gold leaf edge of the cup. "There, there," El said, seeing what it was, "Only a tea cup, it isn't so bad."
But Minnie was unable to reply and instead the strength went out of her and she fell into El's arms heavily, dropping the bit of cup she had salvaged. The glass piece hit the floor with a sickening crunch and she flinched as it shattered into even smaller pieces.
"Nothing a good reparo can't fix," consoled El, gently depositing her into one of the nearby chairs as she stared, unseeing, straight ahead, and her breath shook with the threat of a world crumbling as thoroughly as that tea cup.
It was not just a tea cup.
It was the unthinkable.
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