OhSam Triple Play 2015!

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The comm hosted this little event a couple of years ago, and as November 2 is an auspicious day for our darling Sam, today would be the perfect time to revisit this challenge. Welcome to the Triple Play 2015!

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[amberdreams]

1. Monument Valley
2. Dean
3. Staked out in the burning sun

FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

[crowroad3]

We Shall Gather at the River

Gut-red. Highish noon.

The Mittens, sprung bloody from a thousand screensavers, might be, if they were in sight, burning palms onto his retinas, and the red, the red, the flare of John Ford's own personal backlot, where John Wayne kicked a saddle and drawled break out the grain and chased the Navajo stand-ins for all his Comanche...

Suck in a breath, son; it might be yer last; there's a good little cowboy. Staked him to spikes and left him, no shit, to dessicate with the brittlebush, the coyote. Ghoul-gunslinger, might have been. Got the girl to safety and chased him, silver-swinging, into the sage-scented scrub. Got turned round in the canyon, jumped. A howl out there. Everything gone to ground now. Streaks of wrist-red onto the old earth. Highish noon.

Pray a little, to the valley of the gods. Dean's gonna laugh at it; no hoof-thunder; no fool-cavalry to fuck it all up.

*

Not like this, Sam shouts to the sun, get back here, you bastard.

There's such a thing, John Wayne muses back, as a creature

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[amberdreams]

Eeeee this is perfect! Love how out of it Sam is that the John he conjures up is Wayne not Winchester. And I love how you word-weave like an Anglo Saxon.

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[crowroad3]

Wayne not Winchester! Yep ( ;

So glad you like this--such a great prompt. I kind of have a thing for that slice of the country.

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[caranfindel]

This is beautiful!

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[crowroad3]

Aw, thank you!

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[quickreaver]

NO APOLOGIES REQUIRED.

This was amazing! Such deliciously painful poetry.

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[crowroad3]

Hee, I'm scared of offending the ghost of Mr.Wayne, which, you know...*break out the salt*!

So glad you enjoyed!

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[madebyme_x]

Beautiful! I love how you weave your words!

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[crowroad3]

Thanks so much! Am very glad you enjoyed.

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[thursdaysisters]

And I am that 12-year-old in the back of the comics shop reading Preacher. :D That we should all be so lucky to have John Wayne as our spirit guide.

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[crowroad3]

Amen!

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[ameliacareful]

"to dessicate with the brittlebush" I just said that out loud, it's so fine.

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[crowroad3]

I'm glad you found a line good for reading aloud, my friend! ( :

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[laughablelament]

Holy crap.

We're all so conditioned, I think, to associate Dean with the movie references, that we kind of forget that Sam's seen them too. And here, hallucinating(?), telling himself to hang on... John Wayne is perfect. Unexpected and so on point.

Gut red, mesquite, seven fingers... Sigh... But then, you know how I associate Winchesters with desertscapes. :D

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[crowroad3]

I know, these boys and the deserts...there's something about it, a kind of stony psychogeography.

And oh yeah--Dean always gets the tough-guy films, but you know they both have to have seen The Searchers, right?
Every post-1956 hunter must have, heh.