Just one Line.

The only person on earth that can get Julissa to change her mind once it was made up is her husband, and if you went to him and asked him to help you change her mind he will say “No, sorry, that is my only superpower, it is only to be used for good.”
 
I didn't start college until after I "graduated" from the military and ate up every history class I could grab. In the history of WWII I wrote my term paper on the book The Wild Blue by Stephen Ambrose, the author of Band of Brothers. The book was a disaster, Ambrose was close friends with George McGovern who flew B-24 bombers, so he decided to write about McGovern's flying career. Unfortunately for Ambrose, McGovern flew 35 combat missions, not all of them were "Milk Runs" but this was definitely not "Memphis Belle" material. Ambrose also plagiarized, he had taken passages from Wings of Morning: The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down over Germany in World War II, by Thomas Childers.

I roasted the book, called it a travesty far below what Ambrose was capable of, and accused him of being too starstruck by a politician. I accused Ambrose of taking one chapter of story and padding it out to novel length by hyperventilating over George McGovern. I handed my paper to my professor who looked at it and said "I can't wait to read this, Steven Ambrose is a close personal friend." OOOOPS!

In the end I got an A and the professor's note said, "I totally agree."
I was never so disappointed in a writer I respected than when I read many of the books in the Hopalong Cassidy series by Clarence E. Mulford. Not in Mulford, but in James A. Michener. In his book, Centennial, passages, jokes, and events were copied almost word for word in the Cattle Drive segment of the book. I wondered if other books were also filled with plagiarized passages.
 
I was never so disappointed in a writer I respected than when I read many of the books in the Hopalong Cassidy series by Clarence E. Mulford. Not in Mulford, but in James A. Michener. In his book, Centennial, passages, jokes, and events were copied almost word for word in the Cattle Drive segment of the book. I wondered if other books were also filled with plagiarized passages.
I've seen court convictions against Dan Brown in The DaVinci Code (which I thought was stupid) taking material from The Vatican Boys, Steven King in The Dark Tower (which was so-so) taking material from a comic book, The Rook (which I loved, J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire taking material from The Adventures of Willy the Wizard by Adrian Jacob. George Harrison in his song My Sweet Lord "unintentionally" plagiarized "He's so Fine" by the Chiffons (Which I spotted the minute I heard it). Other names convicted of plagiarism include Hellen Keller from a story she wrote when she was 11 years old, Johnny Cash, Martin Luther King AFTER he died, Jane Goodall, and HG Wells
 
I've seen court convictions against Dan Brown in The DaVinci Code (which I thought was stupid) taking material from The Vatican Boys, Steven King in The Dark Tower (which was so-so) taking material from a comic book, The Rook (which I loved, J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire taking material from The Adventures of Willy the Wizard by Adrian Jacob. George Harrison in his song My Sweet Lord "unintentionally" plagiarized "He's so Fine" by the Chiffons (Which I spotted the minute I heard it). Other names convicted of plagiarism include Hellen Keller from a story she wrote when she was 11 years old, Johnny Cash, Martin Luther King AFTER he died, Jane Goodall, and HG Wells
I'm sure I've used phrases and had characters say unoriginal dialog I've written. But to take wholesale from a series of books (in the public domain perhaps) by the man was disappointing.
 
“If I don’t want a blowjob when I’m seventy, then bury me, all those other signs of life are false readings.”

We're a Wonderful Wife, Chapter 06
 
"I've never gotten busy in a Burger King bathroom, but there are several In-N-Out burgers I'm no longer allowed to frequent."
 
A romance between a personal chef and a guy who runs a farm supply/feed mill:

Kenny and Yi had an interesting relationship, she made her living feeding people, he made his living feeding food.
 
We were being watched as I took her, and she didn't even know it. I was fucking beside myself.
 
Jeanie: "Just spent the past hour with some dude listening to lo-fi Trance from Mongolia or something."

Alex: "Ha, dubsteppe."

Jeanie: "He just told another one of his dry little jokes I never get, didn't he?"
 
I kinda make a neko look tame. I actually broke my pillow, the first day of my last time. Being in heat is awful. Well, it's actually fun as fuck! But, the regrets, afterwards? Yeah. They bad.
 
I’ve had a story open on my phone to try to make bits and pieces of progress when I get a few spare minutes. As I was typing this line:

“This was different. It was electric, consuming, like pure warm sunlight was being pumped into my body through her mouth.”

I noticed that the autocorrect suggestion before I started typing “sunlight” was “butter”.

That would have taken things in a very different direction.
 
Two lines from a non erotic-mostly-wip

"Its been 10 months since I've had a drink," Charles eased the shot glass away from him. "Hate to break that streak now."

Later in the same scene

"Its been 60 days since I've taken a life," Nicole pressed the barrel of the Glock harder into his forehead. "I'd hate to break that streak now."
 
"Are you mad is a rhetorical question when dealing with Abigail," Lydia glared at her niece while she spoke. "Mad as in angry, mad as in crazy, as in she drives everyone around her mad."
 
Not from a story, just from my mind. And I need to exorcise it.

"Her buccal beef slab was slathered with his boy sauce."
 
Not from a story, just from my mind. And I need to exorcise it.

"Her buccal beef slab was slathered with his boy sauce."
Please take a transcript of a cooking show and turn it into glorious poetry for us all.
 
This is a long, meaty sentence from a story I'll be submitting to the Halloween contest in a few days:

It seemed so unlikely, orgasms being an ‘alone thing’ in Noreen’s life so far; the thought of having one so publicly with these two friends, and in front of the entire population of her home town, it seemed so wild, so unlike her, and yet…and yet…and yet… “Fuck!” she cried, Daniel’s wet cock in her squeezing hand now, her pussy grinding hard on Sissy’s loving mouth as this wildly intense orgasm made her writhe so very uncontrollably, with loud nothings screaming from her open mouth.
 
She'd told him once, only partly for the effect on him, "Think of your favourite lesbian porn. Then imagine it with actual real women, actually loving it. Then make it kinkier and better. That's my life, sweetie."

Rachel had laughed at his sudden need to adjust his pants.

(I Say Ass, You Say Arse: Contrasts)
 
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