Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5398372 times)

Offline southendmd

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"B" is bluish
« Reply #12500 on: April 11, 2007, 02:54:14 pm »
Ennis heated his stale coffee in a chipped enamel pan, swathed in a bluish flame.


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"C" is chips
« Reply #12501 on: April 11, 2007, 03:16:19 pm »
Ennis shuffles to the gas burner, pours leftover coffee into a pan with chips of enamel missing from its surface.
« Last Edit: April 11, 2007, 03:19:18 pm by Toast »

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"D" is daughter's
« Reply #12502 on: April 11, 2007, 03:27:34 pm »
Ennis may just have to stay at his married daughter's residence until he finds another job.
« Last Edit: April 11, 2007, 05:28:48 pm by Fran »

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"E" is evacuated
« Reply #12503 on: April 11, 2007, 05:08:14 pm »
Ennis turned on the tap and evacuated in the sink.
« Last Edit: April 11, 2007, 05:11:17 pm by Memento »

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"F" is flamed
« Reply #12504 on: April 11, 2007, 05:11:28 pm »
The gas burner flamed up and swathed the chipped enamel pan in blue as it reheated Ennis's coffee.

=aside= Sandy
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Good One Sandy !!!
« Last Edit: April 11, 2007, 05:16:32 pm by Toast »

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"G" is gaps
« Reply #12505 on: April 11, 2007, 05:51:50 pm »
Ennis wakes before five, wind rocking the trailer, hissing in through gaps by the door and the windows.
« Last Edit: April 11, 2007, 05:55:47 pm by Fran »

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"H" is hurdle
« Reply #12506 on: April 11, 2007, 06:23:04 pm »
Ennis faces another hurdle when he loses his job and may have to stay with his daughter, but "he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream."

=aside= Toast
Thanks. In Boston Evacuation Day (March 17) is a holiday.
« Last Edit: April 11, 2007, 06:27:45 pm by Memento »

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"I" is italics
« Reply #12507 on: April 11, 2007, 06:30:05 pm »
The prologue to Brokeback Mountains, always part of the story, but left out in the original New Yorker publication, is always printed in italics.

Ennis Del Mar wakes before five, wind rocking the trailer, hissing in around the aluminum door and window frames. The shirts hanging on a nail shudder slightly in the draft. He gets up, scratching the grey wedge of belly and pubic hair, shuffles to the gas burner, pours leftover coffee in a chipped enamel pan; the flame swathes it in blue. He turns on the tap and urinates in the sink, pulls on his shirt and jeans, his worn boots, stamping the heels against the floor to get them full on. The wind booms down the curved length of the trailer and under its roaring passage he can hear the scratching of fine gravel and sand. It could be bad on the highway with the horse trailer. He has to be packed and away from the place that morning. Again the ranch is on the market and they've shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, "Give em to the real estate shark, I'm out a here," dropping the keys in Ennis's hand. He might have to stay with his married daughter until he picks up another job, yet he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream.

The stale coffee is boiling up but he catches it before it goes over the side, pours it into a stained cup and blows on the black liquid, lets a panel of the dream slide forward. If he does not force his attention on it, it might stoke the day, rewarm that old, cold time on the mountain when they owned the world and nothing seemed wrong. The wind strikes the trailer like a load of dirt coming off a dump truck, eases, dies, leaves a temporary silence.

[FIRST LINE OF PRINTED PAGE IS ALSO CAPITALIZED FOR PROLOGUE]


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I checked Wikipedia, and I was wrong.
It has nothing to do with too much green beer.
Cool.
« Last Edit: April 11, 2007, 06:49:03 pm by Toast »

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"J" is jostle
« Reply #12508 on: April 11, 2007, 06:53:06 pm »
The wind rocking the trailer will also jostle Ennis's horse trailer, making for a bad trip on the highway.
« Last Edit: April 11, 2007, 11:09:31 pm by Fran »

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"L" is lasts
« Reply #12509 on: April 11, 2007, 10:56:54 pm »
Ennis hopes that the memory of his dream about Jack lasts long enough to recapture that time on the mountain "when they owned the world and nothing seemed wrong.."
« Last Edit: April 11, 2007, 11:03:54 pm by Memento »