Library of Formatting Examples:Thought Breaks/04A

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Walker, infinitely tired, forgot his
coffee and began to tidy up the
desk, filing everything he wanted to
keep in an electronically locked
cabinet, shoving everything else into
the destruction of the vibrator. He
pondered for a moment the powdered
secrets that were heaped like
black dust in the bottom of the canister:
a symbol of safety to a terrified world.

Step one: find Millet. <i>Find Millet.</i>

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It took the Secret Service
exactly twenty-nine hours to locate
Dr. Otto Millet. Thirty minutes
later, Walker was climbing out
of a government helicopter and
staring at Millet's small house
through squinted eyes which he
shielded with both hands against
the blazing desert sun. The house

The white space means it's some kind of Break. This is from a Science Fiction magazine, a genre that used LOTS of Thought Breaks at the time, and Project Comments specified treating these as such. In other genres, it could be either a Section or a Thought Break.

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