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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZLQa5SP9G
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“I’m fine, thanks,” she responded with a smile.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9yjfC1Jqb5
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“Do I know you,” he asked, genuinely curious.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhcgOhtpGBf
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQlNU58JU35
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“Don’t believe everything you hear,” he chuckled, taking a seat beside her.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEkUz7JVGRs
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡftrOSusNb7
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“So, you’ve read about me, have you? The Time Magazine piece? Forbes?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2tdS1wfVhq
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKSOKhPoG5W
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“What other kind is there?” He asked, puzzled.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDV3KYmW93
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“Oh, lots of other kinds,” she sighed in response.” Auras. Eyes. Body language. Souls.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIseNhwVbN4
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“So, you read souls, do you?” He said, amused.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQscT5HBUGn
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“I read a great many things, souls among them, yes.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4eRcmI56KV
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“So, oh most alluringly mysterious one, what do you read in mine?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6tECeSItC3
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“Darkness. Light. Ambivalence. Complexity. You are an enigma.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9MgKg4BeyS
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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.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJEfL3lW1DG
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