There’s a seduction in silence.  She’d read it once in a Gabriel Garcia Marquez story.  The scene he’d created appealed to her.  A woman laid bare.  A bit dramatic perhaps, but still – the idea had captured her interest.  Before, again, and now she’d tried it, this same scenario, one that had run itself about her mind many times.  Unfortunately, though, the reality of it always left her cold.

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