This was wonderfulbewsNovember 20 2006, 02:54:30 UTC
You are hardly a meager writer. Sorry to see your writing end (your final line here is what I'm thinking at this moment). Fortunately, you've produced a robust library that will keep your readers busy for a long, long time. I do hope you'll continue to write, even if it's outside the BBM universe.
I very much agree with your intro, too. The #1 emotion for me from Brokeback has been extreme gratitude. Thank you for your many works; they've added immensely to my BBM experience.
Re: This was wonderfulstevehtxNovember 21 2006, 00:47:17 UTC
I have often wondered if my work would take the direction of this story...forgotten by others, relegated to the archives of a website. I hope not. I hope that, like Ennis and Jack, someone will remember and occasionally laugh or cry at the stories I wrote.
But the reality is that they have been read. People have laughed and cried and that for me has been an amazingly surprising result from a foray into a medium I never in my life thought I might have the slightest talent at.
And you are right...there is gratitude for the gift of these characters, gratitude for the lessons shown us in their lives, and gratitude that I have been allowed to be a part of such a world-shaking event as Brokeback Mountain.
All your wonderful stories...trekfanDecember 8 2006, 15:20:53 UTC
Steve,
I've copied and printed almost all of your stories; people think me very strange as I sometimes cry and sometimes tearfully laugh while reading out of a 3-ring binder on the commuter train home. Thanks a mil, guy; can't tell you how much I appreciate your efforts. Let's have some more?
Re: All your wonderful stories...stevehtxDecember 10 2006, 00:58:46 UTC
That's very flattering that you would go to that much trouble for my stories. I have a file with all of them in it, it's quite large, with pictures and such. I can zip it if you like. It's designed to read on the computer under a reading layout which looks like a book. Happy to send it to you if you like. Just email me at steven.delaune@yahoo.com.
Re: All your wonderful stories...stevehtxDecember 10 2006, 01:01:08 UTC
Doug,
Don't think I will be writing anymore. My last story was about the death of Ennis and I'm not sure that I can write anything after that. We'll see about later but now, it's like the end of a chapter for me with the boys. I don't want it to happen and I still fight moving on. We'll see.
Thanks again for enjoying my stories. You don't know what it means to me when someone finds feeling and emotion in them.
Ever since his friend, the one in the postcards, had died, her daddy’s spirit had broken beyond repair. His heart had been taken from him with the loss. He had no life left to live.
The grief, guilt and despair had been too overwhelming. There was no way for him to escape the pain.
One day a few months before, he had sat down and told her about his friend. He spoke for a long while of the times they’d had, the places they’d gone, how his friend had taught him to laugh and look at the world around him.
She watched as a spark came to his eyes, how he sat a little straighter, how he spoke softly and tenderly about this man. He didn’t say right out, in so many words, that he had loved him but she wasn’t stupid and knew what her daddy had been trying, in his way, to tell her.
They both cried at the memories…he for the loss of his friend, she for the loss of her daddy to the sadness.
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I very much agree with your intro, too. The #1 emotion for me from Brokeback has been extreme gratitude. Thank you for your many works; they've added immensely to my BBM experience.
-B.
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But the reality is that they have been read. People have laughed and cried and that for me has been an amazingly surprising result from a foray into a medium I never in my life thought I might have the slightest talent at.
And you are right...there is gratitude for the gift of these characters, gratitude for the lessons shown us in their lives, and gratitude that I have been allowed to be a part of such a world-shaking event as Brokeback Mountain.
Thank you for your kind words. I wish you well.
Steve
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From your stories I have learned a great deal.
Thank you as always. :)
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I've copied and printed almost all of your stories; people think me very strange as I sometimes cry and sometimes tearfully laugh while reading out of a 3-ring binder on the commuter train home. Thanks a mil, guy; can't tell you how much I appreciate your efforts. Let's have some more?
Doug
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Thanks again for your interest in my work.
Steve
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Don't think I will be writing anymore. My last story was about the death of Ennis and I'm not sure that I can write anything after that. We'll see about later but now, it's like the end of a chapter for me with the boys. I don't want it to happen and I still fight moving on. We'll see.
Thanks again for enjoying my stories. You don't know what it means to me when someone finds feeling and emotion in them.
Steve
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The grief, guilt and despair had been too overwhelming. There was no way for him to escape the pain.
One day a few months before, he had sat down and told her about his friend. He spoke for a long while of the times they’d had, the places they’d gone, how his friend had taught him to laugh and look at the world around him.
She watched as a spark came to his eyes, how he sat a little straighter, how he spoke softly and tenderly about this man. He didn’t say right out, in so many words, that he had loved him but she wasn’t stupid and knew what her daddy had been trying, in his way, to tell her.
They both cried at the memories…he for the loss of his friend, she for the loss of her daddy to the sadness.
* sniffle *
That was heartbreakingly beautiful.
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