The Storm Within

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down all the barriers they had set up within themselves to
resist this temptation. Their feelings were so dangerously close to the
surface that they could hardly hide them any longer.
The storm was raging on and the drama of the lightning was very
shocking to them. They could almost feel its electricity. “The playing of
lightning was incessant. A bolt struck a tall chinaberry tree at the edge
of the field. It filled all visible space with a blinding glare and the
crash seemed to invade the very boards they stood upon.” The lightning in
the literal storm was the symbol of the electricity felt between the
Calixta and Alcee. It draws them together by its magnetic force. She falls
into his arms and their desire could not be denied once they touched. The
urge was too powerful for them to deny, like a bolt of lightning. The
intensity of the storm increases along with their longing for each other.
They did not turn and run from the internal storm of passion within them,
but instead it ...

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