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

[Fran]

A big storm moving in from the Pacific which resulted in an earlier-than-expected departure from Brokeback Mountain was the first glitch in Jack and Ennis's relationship.

[southendmd]

Jack hotfooted it up from Texas to Wyoming, where he tried holding Ennis's feet to the fire about being together.

[memento]

Unfortunately for Jack and Ennis, life kept interrupting the short, infrequent times they were together.

=aside= Paul
Unfortunately Ennis got cold feet. 
 

[Fran]

A few minutes after he said goodbye to Jack in Signal, Ennis found himself feeling jelly-legged, queasy, confused, conflicted, and angry at himself.

[southendmd]

At the reunion, Jack and Ennis took a leap of faith, so they leaped off the cliff into uncertain waters.

[Meryl]

As their relationship continued over the years, the mainstay of Ennis' and Jack's relationship was the intimacy that Proulx described as "the brilliant charge of their infrequent couplings."

[Fran]

Jack proposed a little cow-and-calf operation, but Ennis considered it a nonviable solution:  "I told you, it ain't goin' to be that way."

[southendmd]

A couple times a year, the boys would try to orchestrate their brief, mountain symphony.

[memento]

Ennis and Jack were at the peak of their existence while they were on Brokeback.

[Meryl]

When Ennis and Jack had their big blowup at the lake, the rupture between them was sharp but brief.  As Proulx wrote, "they torqued things almost to where they had been, for what they'd said was no news.  Nothing ended, nothing begun, nothing resolved."