The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[memento]

Ennis outperformed Jack at marksmanship, as evidenced when he killed the elk with one shot.

[MaineWriter]

A cold, snowy morning on Brokeback portended the future for Jack and Ennis, both in the short- and long-term.

[Fran]

Ennis used Earl's cold-blooded murder as his rationale for denying himself a "sweet life" with Jack.

[Meryl]

Only a short time into his renewed affair with Jack, Ennis considered himself a seasoned liar, not realizing that Alma had seen what she had seen and looked on his fabrications with a cold eye.

[memento]

On the third morning there were the clouds Ennis had expected, a gray racer out of the West, a bar of darkness driving wind before it and small flakes. It faded after an hour into tender spring snow that heaped wet and heavy. By nightfall it had turned colder. Jack and Ennis passed a joint back and forth, the fire burning late, Jack restless and bitching about the cold, poking the flames with a stick, twisting the dial of the transistor radio until the batteries died.
[story]

[MaineWriter]

It was a cold, snowy night in November and there was unrest in the kitchen after the Thanksgiving meal.

[Fran]

With some well-chosen words, Jack takes a shot at convincing Ennis that they belong together:  "You know, it could be like this, just like this, always."

[Fran]

Round 674!

The "hot or cold" theme continues.

Words containing "hot"

Words containing "cold"

[memento]

Jack accommodated Ennis when he was "dizzy drunk on all fours one cold hour when the moon had notched past two", by providing him with an extra blanket so he could "grab forty winks."

[MaineWriter]

Ennis shot Jack a baleful glare when Jack lassoed Ennis's boots.