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

[Fran]

Fayette Newsome seems to prefer high necklines.

 

[southendmd]

In Lightning Flat, Ennis sat across the table from old-timer John C. Twist.

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Jack told Alma a little bit about his personal life:   "I got a boy.  Eight months old.  Smiles a lot.  I married the prettiest little gal in Childress, Texas.  Lureen."

[memento]

Ennis told Alma Jr. regarding her wedding that he reckoned they could find themselves a new cowboy.

[Fran]

They had a high-time supper by the fire, a can of beans each, fried potatoes and a quart of whiskey on shares, sat with their backs against a log, boot soles and copper jeans rivets hot, swapping the bottle while the lavender sky emptied of color and the chill air drained down, drinking, smoking cigarettes, getting up every now and then to piss, firelight throwing a sparkle in the arched stream, tossing sticks on the fire to keep the talk going, talking horses and rodeo, roughstock events, wrecks and injuries sustained, the submarine Thresher lost two months earlier with all hands and how it must have been in the last doomed minutes, dogs each had owned and known, the draft, Jack's home ranch where his father and mother held on, Ennis's family place folded years ago after his folks died, the older brother in Signal and a married sister in Casper.

[story]

[southendmd]

David Trimble's character the Basque was surprised by Ennis's new request for soup, as beans were getting old to Jack.

[memento]

Old man Twist made Ennis feel unwelcome in his home.

"The old man sat silent, his hands folded on the plastic tablecloth, staring at Ennis with an angry, knowing expression."
[story]

[Fran]

"One of my oldest friends, Tom Watkin, with whom I once published a rural newspaper, read and commented on the story as it developed.  I thought too much about this story.  It was supposed to be Ennis who had dreams about Jack but I had dreams about both of them." 

-- Annie Proulx, in "Getting Movied," Story to Screenplay   

[Fran]

Round 688!

More "Old" or "New"

Words containing "old"

Words containing "new"

[southendmd]

Jack remembered the old, cold time on the mountain when Ennis grabbed him by the armful.