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.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6AvEXePRBj
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“I’m fine, thanks,” she responded with a smile.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxutseE60t
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“Do I know you,” he asked, genuinely curious.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMQsTr8EsF
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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.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoKt9AdLU6Y
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“Don’t believe everything you hear,” he chuckled, taking a seat beside her.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCYzdV14ukS
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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.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFLmnM7gKk
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“So, you’ve read about me, have you? The Time Magazine piece? Forbes?”460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZIjCPyIMb
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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.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDtgDEtP9nI
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“What other kind is there?” He asked, puzzled.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwgqc7R83RC
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“Oh, lots of other kinds,” she sighed in response.” Auras. Eyes. Body language. Souls.”460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ45MS0EVFbV
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“So, you read souls, do you?” He said, amused.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMeGDSOiWgm
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“I read a great many things, souls among them, yes.”460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRXse4vALtC
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“So, oh most alluringly mysterious one, what do you read in mine?”460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb7EIfV3VFj
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“Darkness. Light. Ambivalence. Complexity. You are an enigma.”460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8LgN4xX4vD
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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.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbm2GF2kfn
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and then Add to home screen.