Weekend writing challenge: Steal from the real — use someone else’s words in your fiction

In honor of an intriguing new UK initiative to incorporate bits of overheard dialogue into writing—poems, flash fiction and scripts, the best to be published in an anthology—how about some Stolen Dialogue Prompts for the weekend? (And, hey, where’s our domestic version of this initiative?)

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WRITING PROMPTS: Stolen Dialogue 
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1. (Inspired by a recent restaurant visit, write a scene based on, or including, the following dialogue—)

“It’s her again.”
She holds the phone out.
“Don’t answer it then.”
“I don’t have a choice.”

2. Or, alternately:

After reading this, take the first conversation you have—no matter what—and work a sentence from it into the opening line of a short story.