Sometimes It Goes the Other Way

[glaenconer]

Jack pointed the pickup south, heard no discouraging word from Ennis, and kept on going ‘til dark while the silence solidified like a cab-full of wet cement.  Orange and green neon of a package store painted a garish path across wet pavement to a motel on the other side, and Ennis said, this’ll do.  In a blink, they were behind closed doors,

Comments

[katecaton]

Your description of Jack gentling Ennis is perfect;your Jack is very true to the OS, optimistic, trying to find a way to be with Ennis and make a living, and Ennis is his usual self, just worrying about what Alma thinks of him. Your writing is so accomplished, each sentence carries many images. Can't wait to see what happens in Childress,
Kae

[glaenconer]

I am so gratified that readers feel I am remaining true to the characters as Annie Proulx envisioned them. I cannot wait either to see how events transpire once the rodeo comes to Childress.

[gnashsang]

oh my, ennis in TEXAS! what's next???

very interesting that jack was told that alma saw them. good reason to leave WY i suppose, heh.

(ps: i put bumblebees in my tarot fic, heh, thank you.)

[glaenconer]

Indeed, it required a very strong, almost irrefutable reason to explain Jack and Ennis 'lighting out' as they did. I do hope you enjoy the next installment, which will have the rodeo as a backdrop.

I really must make time to read your piece on tarot. I myself am fascinated by the more tenebrous, quasi-religious practices such as divination by cards, and hybrid faiths like Voudon, Santeria, et cetera.

[gnashsang]

yes, i look forward to more of the boys in texas. and the appearance of a certain little lady in a t-bird. :D

oh, you know more about it than i do -- i had to look online for the tarot visuals.. voudon, never heard of it,,, interesting.