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Like a Thief in the Night

Posted by Bettie Sharpe, 01/16/08 12:20 AM


Strangers in the night…
Lovers at first sight, in love forever…
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Strangers in the Night. The phrase conjures images of shadows and mystery. Of dark deeds and darker passions. Of two people who are strangers to each other, but not to the nighttime world they share.

When I read Samhain’s call for submissions to a Valentine’s Day anthology with the theme of Strangers in the Night, I immediately thought of a two-hundred word scene I’d written in which a woman sneaks into a dark penthouse and watches a sleeping man.