Weekend Writing Warriors 4/14/13

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.

All the previous excerpts are collected here. 

Between the last excerpt and this one, Razor and Sandy exchange a few more comments. The other gang members, who Razor refers to as cholos, have gone into the next room for a discussion. Sandy says he’s always believed people have a core of decency and he doesn’t think that Razor is rotten through and through. We pick up in Razor’s POV: 

     Razor pushed the end of the closed switchblade against Sandy’s chest. “You really stupid. I blown away fourteen dudes and you close to bein’ fifteen.” 

     The Anglo swallowed and moved back; his eyes darted toward the room the cholos had gone into. “Look, if you help me get out of here, I’ll give you enough money for you to set yourself up someplace better. We’d both win. I need you to get me out and you want money—it’s easy."

     His eyes were steady now, like he meant what he said. No more simple begging for his life. Razor blinked at him.

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