tea flash fiction

This, my flashiest of fictions, is the third installment of pieces based off the "Ten Things I Love" List started by my friend Bonnie.

3) 24-hour diners

            She took a sip of her tea and finished it.

            “What do your tea leaves say?” he asked.

            She looked into the tiny porcelain cup, but even if she had any idea how to read tea leaves, she still would have been at a loss for words. There was nothing lying at the bottom of her cup. “I guess I don’t have a future,” she said, pointing the cup at him so he could see in to it from across the table.

            He filled her teacup again from the silver pot that was between them. “Try it again.”

            She picked the cup back up and drained it in one gulp. But still, there was nothing. She just sat there and stared down into it.

            He leaned forward and refilled it. “Be careful this time,” he said. “You can’t keep drinking your life away.”

much love,
hedgie