Here is a scene from my short story Redemption:
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A short time later, while mingling and chatting with the gathered guests, Howard noticed a woman sitting off in a corner of the large living room watching him intently with a half-smile. She was in her late twenties or early thirties, dressed in a simple black dress and black shawl, her long, lustrous vantablack hair flowing in generous undulating curls all about her. He gravitated towards her and asked her “Can I get you a drink?” taking a sip from his champagne flute.26Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiDUmEeFJe3
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“I’m fine, thanks,” she responded with a smile.26Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8y3xZVWBqZ
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“Do I know you,” he asked, genuinely curious.26Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmhiGfCxg5T
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“No, but I know you,” she replied, in a vaguely feral voice dipped in honey, her large, black eyes looking at him intently, reading him.26Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBZENpboUh
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“Don’t believe everything you hear,” he chuckled, taking a seat beside her.26Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJw0kaETKb
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“I only believe what I see, and read,” she responded, her voice wrapping itself around him, drawing him to her like a moth to a flame.26Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSPZoW1JCPo
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“So, you’ve read about me, have you? The Time Magazine piece? Forbes?”26Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8r92Kg2hzA
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She laughed, in response, a slightly disquieting sound, like pan pipes blown off-key. “Not that kind of reading,” she said, crossing her legs and broadening her smile.26Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8XHFSAEwi
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“What other kind is there?” He asked, puzzled.26Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpOfpAaWpu3
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“Oh, lots of other kinds,” she sighed in response.” Auras. Eyes. Body language. Souls.”26Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeU12WwYhQe
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“So, you read souls, do you?” He said, amused.26Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoKz3i3UwSr
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“I read a great many things, souls among them, yes.”26Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcL11WXI3o0
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“So, oh most alluringly mysterious one, what do you read in mine?”26Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUlbOYYTMov
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“Darkness. Light. Ambivalence. Complexity. You are an enigma.”26Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFBYfw04MPE
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“Well thank you. I do try,” he said grinning. He had no idea what game she was playing but was enthralled by her approach and drawn to her for reasons he would not have been able to articulate. She was lovely, true, but not as lovely as some of the other women he had been speaking to when he noticed her. There was just something about her. Maybe Chuck would need to take an Uber home after all if this played out right.26Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8a8xWk8uX
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