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Prompt #366:
- Genre: romance
- Word: price
- Action: checking the files
Story (99 words, per Microsoft Word):
Daina was waiting to hear from a colleague, a specialist in immunosuppressants, for advice about her patient in 304B. She glanced across the counter. Whatever he sought in that file cabinet on the other side of the nurses’ station, Idris Marker’s long-fingered riffle of its folders shook her with a tremor something like anticipation. Her legs weakened; she dropped her pen just to excuse falling to her knees momentarily. When she pulled herself back up to counter level, his eyes sought hers. She realized, startled and suddenly, dangerously unprofessional: I will pay any price to see behind that mask.
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