Fanfic Rec: "At This Late Season" (Brokeback Mountain)
This sad, quiet fic is clearly inspired by both the movie and Annie Proulx's writing, and the title is even a direct quote from the short story: "In August Ennis spent the whole night with Jack in the main camp and in a blowy hailstorm the sheep took off west and got among a herd in another allotment. There was a damn miserable time for five days, Ennis and a Chilean herder with no English trying to sort them out, the task almost impossible as the paint brands were worn and faint at this late season."
Though that text is from a scene near the end of their first summer on Brokeback, this story takes place at the late season of Jack and Ennis's time together during their whole lives. It has such a dull ache. They feel a rarely-found peace in the moments described in it, but the feeling is mixed with pain for all of the things they know can't do anything about.
Title: At This Late Season
Author: destina
Rating: R
Summary: "It's their fourteenth late summer's excursion and they've made an art out of provisioning for the days up on the mountain."
Link: He thinks of Mexico's soft sands, of sunshine, and wonders what that might be like...
Though that text is from a scene near the end of their first summer on Brokeback, this story takes place at the late season of Jack and Ennis's time together during their whole lives. It has such a dull ache. They feel a rarely-found peace in the moments described in it, but the feeling is mixed with pain for all of the things they know can't do anything about.
Title: At This Late Season
Author: destina
Rating: R
Summary: "It's their fourteenth late summer's excursion and they've made an art out of provisioning for the days up on the mountain."
Link: He thinks of Mexico's soft sands, of sunshine, and wonders what that might be like...