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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm8EjYRWO11
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“I’m fine, thanks,” she responded with a smile.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVzVenHbuO6
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“Do I know you,” he asked, genuinely curious.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBlosbAC2qD
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡztrU73Yq6v
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“Don’t believe everything you hear,” he chuckled, taking a seat beside her.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHtjau5aday
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ38x2L75mQt
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“So, you’ve read about me, have you? The Time Magazine piece? Forbes?”111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsR3C1braln
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm9vqvUfwp5
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“What other kind is there?” He asked, puzzled.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaeOwAI3qpV
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“Oh, lots of other kinds,” she sighed in response.” Auras. Eyes. Body language. Souls.”111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRQs0yYCyAp
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“So, you read souls, do you?” He said, amused.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ZmKhPUvNs
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“I read a great many things, souls among them, yes.”111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZVn04fAis
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“So, oh most alluringly mysterious one, what do you read in mine?”111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhWMHMXaRwm
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“Darkness. Light. Ambivalence. Complexity. You are an enigma.”111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXa6FTpAmHm
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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.111Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCLif8s2CzZ
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