The Bettermost Drabblefest: Please Join In!

[Clyde-B]

  It is particularly hard in my profession - working with lawyers.   

Merr

I don't envy you Merr!   

Hi Clyde.  Poor Ennis - still looking for the coffee pot handle and Jack trying to get him out of his "comfort" zone.  Very neat drabble.

Merr

Thank you Merr,
Yeah, getting Ennis out of his comfort zone is going to be a hard push!

[Clyde-B]

Ennis and Junior went outside, it was a clear evening, with a cool fresh breeze.  They walked down the silent street, then turned and sat down on the steps of the house.

“Daddy, Tom seems really nice.” Junior said.  Ennis looked down at the ground.

“Daddy, you know…..Daddy, I…..  I….”

Suddenly the door opened behind them.  “Alma, will you get in here!!!” Kurt yelled.  “Get in here, the baby’s cryin’ like crazy.  Now!”

Alma Jr.got up and rushed inside the house.  Ennis didn’t move.  He sat there, staring at the ground.

I love Ennis, but he makes you want a knock him up side a the head sometimes!   
You're very good at making them reveal nothing and stringing us along hoping they will!

[Clyde-B]

Fern,

Thank you very much for lurking and reading and taking time to comment.

Feel free to join us any time you want!

[Cameron]

Thank you, Marie and Clyde

I love Ennis, but he makes you want a knock him up side a the head sometimes!  
You're very good at making them reveal nothing and stringing us along hoping they will!

But Clyde, I am not sure if revealing nothing is a good or bad thing.
 

[Clyde-B]

Thank you, Marie and Clyde

But Clyde, I am not sure if revealing nothing is a good or bad thing.
 

It's exactly what they did in the movie.  They gave the audience just enough information to get us to start thinking of the possibilities added details as we went along and then held out with the final answers making us want to know more.

It isn't that you don't reveal anything, you just don't reveal as much as we want to know.

(It's the same thing teenage girls do on dates!!!     And it works there too!)

In other words it's a very good thing.

[cwby30]

Evenin.

Well, Cameron, mariez, fernly, Clyde-B, thanks for the kind words. Enjoying this time in their lives, and am working on some more to add to it. Just thinking of how to work some "prompts" into it! This is fun. 

Thanks again. 

[Cameron]

Aww, thank you Clyde.

[Dagi]

 
     “Ennis, Riverton ain’t the only place in the world.”
     “This here is all I know, Jack.  I don’t know nothin else.” He shook his head.  “What you want me to do?  Go huntin alligators in Okeefenokee swamp?  Or maybe we should be raisin Appaloosas in Timbuktu?  I can’t do that.”   There were tears in his eyes.  “I can’t hardly keep myself fed and a roof over my head in this dinky little town and you want me to go out and stand with you against the whole damn world.  What chance we gone a have doin that?”
      “We could try.”



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So!  You theenk you make it eempossible to wrench the heart weeth the funny words?  HAHA to you!

Damn it, Clyde, 100 words and I go and cry again. 


So many great drabbles. Do you guys have a machine or something? Thinking about how hard it is for me to write....and you just seem to through  them out... so great.

Dagi

[MaineWriter]

Hi all,

Give these a go today...

• spirits in the night
• gypsy angel row
• dancin in the moonlight

L

[mariez]

Spirits in the Night

She peeked in on Bobby, closing his bedroom door quietly, and padded into the living room.  She made herself a drink and put an album on the turntable, keeping the volume low.  Stretching out on the couch, she tried to clear her mind, but found the day's events running through in an endless loop…. damn, she'd forgotten to call Bobby's teacher back…Daddy bitching again about Jack taking off on another fishing trip …. she'd have to handle that ornery Wilson herself tomorrow ….had Henderson's past-due been paid yet? ….better place another call first thing in the morning ….

…..an inexplicable yearning and sadness washed over her as she descended into sleep, unaware of the tears running down her face or Bruce Springsteen's haunting voice playing on softly ….

So we closed our eyes and said goodbye to gypsy angel row, felt so right
Together we moved like spirits in the night, all night
~~~~~~~

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