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.148Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoVDY5mGbe8
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“I’m fine, thanks,” she responded with a smile.148Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa8k1q4dTq8
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“Do I know you,” he asked, genuinely curious.148Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHjDzocO8OH
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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.148Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jwIbKcJi7
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“Don’t believe everything you hear,” he chuckled, taking a seat beside her.148Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjViWP7CTdz
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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.148Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6lwwIcHXR1
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“So, you’ve read about me, have you? The Time Magazine piece? Forbes?”148Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0zxPZTBiLG
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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.148Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡua430ouefw
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“What other kind is there?” He asked, puzzled.148Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5is9cibb0
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“Oh, lots of other kinds,” she sighed in response.” Auras. Eyes. Body language. Souls.”148Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLKYc45ackp
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“So, you read souls, do you?” He said, amused.148Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk9uJ5L5cfr
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“I read a great many things, souls among them, yes.”148Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkdrz56seJF
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“So, oh most alluringly mysterious one, what do you read in mine?”148Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSAnMW58y9
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“Darkness. Light. Ambivalence. Complexity. You are an enigma.”148Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7FeODLFpVS
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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.148Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXq5NxXZYFJ
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and then Add to home screen.