Weekend Writing Warriors 8/18/13

Street Glass is my novel-in-progress. My tagline: Underprivileged 18-yr-old Latino leaves street gang and befriends white, over-privileged musicians.

While some of the plot is subject to change (draft two is a pretty early draft, after all) the basic elements will stay, as will the character "voices." So these excerpts will still give you a good idea of how the plot plays out and what the characters are like. The year is 1986, in Los Angeles, California.

Skipping ahead a little. For this excerpt, Neal and Lennie have gone out for a while and return to the band’s mansion after nightfall. They come into the room Sandy’s been watching TV in. Sandy is the first speaker here, and the snippet is in his POV.

“Neal, you look pissed, what’s up?”

“Saw a car behind us a couple times. Don’t trust it.” Neal started toward the picture window.

Before he got there, a series of rapid cracks sounded from outside, almost like a sped-up roll on a snare drum but at a lower pitch.

The entire window exploded and Neal hit the floor with hands covering his head.

Glass flew everywhere.

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