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

[Fran]

Horror washes over nine-year-old Ennis's face as he and his brother become aware of the mutilated body lying lifelessly in the irrigation ditch.

[Meryl]

Lureen, deciding that Jack was acting all too missish about approaching her in the bar, took matters into her own hands and introduced herself to her future husband.

[southendmd]

Ennis inquired as to the normality of relations between Jack and his wife.

[Fran]

Jack told Ennis that he planned to overwinter at his daddy's place and then maybe head out for Texas in the spring unless something better (perhaps an invitation from Ennis) or something worse (a draft notice) came along.

[Meryl]

When it came to parenting the young offspring of the Twist family, there were two schools of thought re combining dinner with televised football.

[southendmd]

Jack and Ennis spent Thanksgiving with their respective relations rather than with each other.

[Fran]

Ennis sat at the kitchen table with Jack's father.  Jack's mother, stout and careful in her movements as though recovering from an operation, said, "Want some coffee, don't you?  Piece a cherry cake?"

[story]

[Meryl]

In the years following Ennis's reunion with Jack, Alma changed gradually from a docile, patient wife into a discontented termagant.

[southendmd]

With wife and kids nearby, Ennis took on the bikers, underscoring his explosive nature.

[Fran]

While the wives were finishing up in the powder room, Randall talked to Jack about a womanless weekend of drinking and fishing down at Roy Taylor's cabin on Lake Kemp.