Just one Line.

[yowser]

My conscience, or will, or whatever you want to call it, seemed to be doing pirouettes and backflips, shape-shifting all over the place, and I found myself convincing myself that here was an amazing pleasure experience, right in front of me, carpe diem and all that, and I was going to seize it with both hands and wring every bit of enjoyment out of the chance dropped in my lap this afternoon.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Reading through the story I have on deck for my next release and came across this line:
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I wasn’t sad, and I wasn’t happy. It was as if someone had released a spring, letting all the tension escape into the ether and it came out in tears. This subtle tension I had been carrying without even knowing, just vanished.

 

[StillStunned]

“What’s it like?” He passed her the flask again. “Having demon blood, I mean.”

“Besides lonely?” She didn’t drink. “I don’t know. What’s it like not to have demon blood?”

“Fair point.”

She was silent, then spoke. “Sometimes I can feel it inside. Darkness, like a fire, a desire to stalk the darkness and kill everyone who ever hurt me.” She closed her eyes and drew a deep breath. “But is that my demon blood, or resentment at how the world treats me?”

(From my current WIP, Dungeon of Desire: Level 3)

 

[onehitwanda]

I laughed. “The 'Abbot' is a local entrepreneur named Céline Blanchard. She stole a shipment of sacramental wine intended for the Abbey of Cluny, and got all her followers too drunk to stand for a week. So she's now known as the Abbot of Cluny, in certain circles.”

 

[PennyThompson]

Grace hadn't made love to a cis-woman since college, but discovered it was just like eating out a bicycle.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Another idea is sprouting...
Should I write line two?
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“Goddess, please…” I clutched the small amulet hanging around my neck with my bloodied hand, praying for whatever help I could find. My mother and younger sister lay on the sidewalk next to me. Blood everywhere; we were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

[yowser]

"All I can say is that most of y'all have a pretty dismal understanding of what 'just one line' means."

 

[MillieDynamite]

Well, @yowser, it depends on what one means by line. A line in a play, television, or movie script isn't one sentence; it's one speech. I've never known for this thread if they meant it to be one sentence or not.

How about you, @lovecraft68? What'd ya mean?

"All I can say is that most of y'all have a pretty dismal understanding of what 'just one line' means."

 

[MillieDynamite]

Opening line:

“When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”
Macbeth

 

[yowser]

Well, @yowser, it depends on what one means by line. A line in a play, television, or movie script isn't one sentence; it's one speech. I've never known for this thread if they meant it to be one sentence or not.

How about you, @lovecraft68? What'd ya mean?

From post No. 1:

Pretty simple. Post one sentence of line from a story you've published or a current project.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I've never read the first page. It was here before my current stent.

From post No. 1:

Pretty simple. Post one sentence of line from a story you've published or a current project.

 

[MillieDynamite]

A few more lines from the greatest writer of all time.

"If music be the food of love, play on." - Twelfth Night
"Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean." - Romeo and Juliet (Prologue)
"O for a muse of fire" - Henry V
"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite." - Romeo and Juliet
"Hear my soul speak: The very instant that I saw you, did. My heart fly to your service." - The Tempest
"As You Like It" - As You Like It

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I've never read the first page. It was here before my current stent.

Stent, or Stint?

 

[MillieDynamite]

This go-round should have been stint, agh!

Stent, or Stint?

 

[StillStunned]

From post No. 1:

Pretty simple. Post one sentence of line from a story you've published or a current project.

But then again, check out this post.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Just one line, he decries. A sentence or thought you'd surmise. With context in play, I guess you could say, It depends on your font and screen size.

 

[lovecraft68]

Is this really something worth discussing?

It started with the thought of a sentence, even a run on sentence. Then people would write a little more, I wrote a little more. I don't see anyone writing full on excerpts but TBH if they did I wouldn't care and I don't run the site anyway, its a thread.

If anyone thinks it's out of hand, and it's that big of a deal, don't post in the thread.

That and if this is big enough to you to complain about, I envy your lack of real problems.

 

[yowser]

The humor meter, methinks, is in need of calibration.

 

[MillieDynamite]

We'll need to turn it up to 11, because 11 is higher than 10. We had the humor meter made with an 11 on it, unlike all those others, because 11 is bigger than 10.

The humor meter, methinks, is in need of calibration.

 

[Rob_Royale]

“Now, I’m sure your dear mother told you that you will have sex with others beside myself. You may learn how to please me expertly, but one does not become a virtuoso, playing only one song.”

From my current WIP, The Red Velvet Collar.

 

[Bloodandglitter]

"I'm going to show you the difference between a pussy and a cock"

 

[Actingup]

"I'm going to show you the difference between a pussy and a cock"

 

[StillStunned]

"I'm going to show you the difference between a pussy and a cock"

 

[onehitwanda]

part of an ongoing work.

It would all pass, like thunder turned to rain turned to sunshine and left nothing but fading puddles to mark the passing

 

[MillieDynamite]

In that fight, the cock always losses. The kitty is thinking, yummy yummy chicken diner.

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