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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmflmy1M21q
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“I’m fine, thanks,” she responded with a smile.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡimaRQTWzxF
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“Do I know you,” he asked, genuinely curious.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡol1lk4itD8
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeCFf7AvdgH
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“Don’t believe everything you hear,” he chuckled, taking a seat beside her.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWOBXCp3NWr
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYx6MGaDjxf
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“So, you’ve read about me, have you? The Time Magazine piece? Forbes?”204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhiCBP5SGYA
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ51glJv8au7
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“What other kind is there?” He asked, puzzled.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrB7hReWenI
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“Oh, lots of other kinds,” she sighed in response.” Auras. Eyes. Body language. Souls.”204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kD0nTz2Vw
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“So, you read souls, do you?” He said, amused.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7dTZVFToJ
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“I read a great many things, souls among them, yes.”204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1gMLzwmJz
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“So, oh most alluringly mysterious one, what do you read in mine?”204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRs3qnjPGjv
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“Darkness. Light. Ambivalence. Complexity. You are an enigma.”204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb0TanZC3Vc
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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.204Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszxsEdSv04
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