Teaser Tuesdays: "What To Do Tonight ... What To Do?"

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

It seems a little like “cheating” to throw out a teaser from a book of short stories, but that’s what I gots to do to y’all this week. Luckily, so far as I’ve read through the book, Beaumont’s work is uniformly excellent and any two sentences I could put out there would be more than enticing enough. So, without further ado, this week’s teaser from the short story “The Murderers”:

The Hunger and Other Stories: A Collection of Violent Entertainments

by Charles Beaumont

(New York: Bantam Books, 1959)

Paperback, 183 Pages, Short Fiction Anthology

ISBN: N/A, US$0.35

My Teaser: “The pale young man in the bright red vest leaned back, sucked reflectively at a Russian candy pellet—the kind with real Jamaican rum inside—and said, yawning: ‘Let’s kill somebody tonight.’ ‘Herbie, please!’ the other man said” (122).