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.46Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHCiedbAjt
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“I’m fine, thanks,” she responded with a smile.46Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bndrRFZO5
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“Do I know you,” he asked, genuinely curious.46Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOhTM2AIDM
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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.46Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYjADeMpTYC
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“Don’t believe everything you hear,” he chuckled, taking a seat beside her.46Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiHMuNM7Fyz
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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.46Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6DPVfPK20N
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“So, you’ve read about me, have you? The Time Magazine piece? Forbes?”46Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKIatTBUKyA
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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.46Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCOAF6LoaLe
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“What other kind is there?” He asked, puzzled.46Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc4DenTXwcL
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“Oh, lots of other kinds,” she sighed in response.” Auras. Eyes. Body language. Souls.”46Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRyV8fceWTS
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“So, you read souls, do you?” He said, amused.46Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5hRWmwSrot
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“I read a great many things, souls among them, yes.”46Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxfaShnjwgi
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“So, oh most alluringly mysterious one, what do you read in mine?”46Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ193xz9kKrV
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“Darkness. Light. Ambivalence. Complexity. You are an enigma.”46Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDeuzRLO6US
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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.46Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCaj2Qq1eiZ
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