The BBM Short Story Version: Read it here!

[Drew Kerrigan]

I don't know how my one of my countrymen did it but a fellow Filipino found a blogsite where the short story was posted in all its glory. My initial reaction was "WOW!" , then I proceeded to the blogsite and pressed Ctrl+P (Internet Explorer) and waited at the printer anxiously. I suggest you do the same NOW coz who knows, maybe the page may expire in a few minutes.

~ Click on this: http://arcaneboy.livejournal.com/31803.html ~

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

...In 1963, when he met Jack Twist, Ennis was engaged to Alma Beers. Both Jack and Ennis claimed to be saving money for a small spread; in Ennis’s case that meant a tobacco can with two five-dollar bills inside. That spring, hungry for any job, each had signed up with Farm and Ranch Employment—they came together on paper as herder and camp tender for the same sheep operation north of Signal. The summer range lay above the tree line on Forest Service land on Brokeback Mountain. It would be Jack Twist’s second summer on the mountain, Ennis’s first. Neither of them was twenty.

They shook hands in the choky little trailer office in front of a table littered with scribbled papers, a Bakelite ashtray brimming with stubs. The venetian blinds hung askew and admitted a triangle of white light, the shadow of the foreman’s hand moving into it. Joe Aguirre, wavy hair the color of cigarette ash and parted down the middle, gave them his point of view...

[Phillip Dampier]

I am surprised it is still there.  The publisher has been tracking these people down and getting them to zap the story, so if you want to keep it, I'd clip and paste it into a text file before it does disappear.

[Drew Kerrigan]

... You read what was EXACTLY on my mind.   But because I was really into it, I head right away and printed it. But don't worry, I also kept a soft copy of the story.

[Fla_Tim]

The short story was on The New Yorker's web site up until 6-8 weeks ago. I tried to find it last week but ended up springing for the $10 for a bookstore version, and now Wyoming Stories, and the soundtrack, and the story to screenplay book and a country western CD Amazon felt "people like me" would like to have (scary thought that).

Obsessed in Florida,

Tim