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.480Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07DAsxQH3Q
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“I’m fine, thanks,” she responded with a smile.480Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpDDngTxTMf
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“Do I know you,” he asked, genuinely curious.480Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJ9mll3DGi
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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.480Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrWFiA6e99w
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“Don’t believe everything you hear,” he chuckled, taking a seat beside her.480Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRvHUSDd2Ca
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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.480Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡARdQVeo1QU
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“So, you’ve read about me, have you? The Time Magazine piece? Forbes?”480Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZkRXDNzRhw
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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.480Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7413t6MXBQ
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“What other kind is there?” He asked, puzzled.480Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLrCVUOJy0
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“Oh, lots of other kinds,” she sighed in response.” Auras. Eyes. Body language. Souls.”480Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPA9rtbqGmo
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“So, you read souls, do you?” He said, amused.480Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKDGDwcmMF
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“I read a great many things, souls among them, yes.”480Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRoIJPHpxtg
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“So, oh most alluringly mysterious one, what do you read in mine?”480Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiJtgzqwLSI
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“Darkness. Light. Ambivalence. Complexity. You are an enigma.”480Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFwm7LqFkAH
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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.480Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYAT90Rraqh
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