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.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNBobhqJC49
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“I’m fine, thanks,” she responded with a smile.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJ7XbPIrCW
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“Do I know you,” he asked, genuinely curious.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi6cBuCveZH
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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.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaRJ1E6sELx
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“Don’t believe everything you hear,” he chuckled, taking a seat beside her.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4as84VrpH
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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.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNFy0X0CCK
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“So, you’ve read about me, have you? The Time Magazine piece? Forbes?”140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdJVW4cBYiY
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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.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7baNmzbM8n
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“What other kind is there?” He asked, puzzled.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1dhLqYeqh
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“Oh, lots of other kinds,” she sighed in response.” Auras. Eyes. Body language. Souls.”140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ICta57YgS
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“So, you read souls, do you?” He said, amused.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK2QEJL5TLA
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“I read a great many things, souls among them, yes.”140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKAA5ruNwFd
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“So, oh most alluringly mysterious one, what do you read in mine?”140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Gxz8zuVbx
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“Darkness. Light. Ambivalence. Complexity. You are an enigma.”140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Frau4y7bo
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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.140Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNQKfXLoH7A
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