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.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZFTmKNpr6T
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“I’m fine, thanks,” she responded with a smile.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj3fCrHetoM
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“Do I know you,” he asked, genuinely curious.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXB3KpR1Zxx
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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.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVS6Chg1i6n
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“Don’t believe everything you hear,” he chuckled, taking a seat beside her.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzzlq1euVU
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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.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFOf7eJv91
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“So, you’ve read about me, have you? The Time Magazine piece? Forbes?”146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJpGtsxTMwv
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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.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDYx73kWWQT
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“What other kind is there?” He asked, puzzled.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkm6TgA8K2n
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“Oh, lots of other kinds,” she sighed in response.” Auras. Eyes. Body language. Souls.”146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeiez96kJrU
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“So, you read souls, do you?” He said, amused.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhiPeoTmoLO
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“I read a great many things, souls among them, yes.”146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF7pfSlso3m
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“So, oh most alluringly mysterious one, what do you read in mine?”146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOsbh5Uve9
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“Darkness. Light. Ambivalence. Complexity. You are an enigma.”146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsqj7AaOPax
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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.146Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwVZ9AigVPf
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