This is where I bless you with yet more terrible grammar and give it back over to Paco. Have fun.

Most people do not understand the things they experience,
nor do they know what they have learned;
but they seem to themselves to have done so.
-Heraclitus

This here's my place, my turf. Guess you might say I'm the most powerful man in these parts. I walk down the street, people look down so they don't chance pissing me off. My people, my gang, is Las Aranas. For people who don't speak no Spanish, that means "The Spiders." All my people got leather jackets with a spider on the left sleeve and a big old web on the back with another spider. I got lotsa people. Kids and older, too. Ain't no generation gap here, they all do what I say. And I don't believe in no fighting inside the gang. We gotta concentrate on the enemy. We ain't the only gang here, just the biggest. But someday that'll change and I'll be in charge of the whole fuckin' thing.

Gotta get rid of that bleeding heart Miguel, too and all his little converts. Since he gave up the life almost 10 years ago, he's been trying to act like a fuckin' saint. But it ain't gonna make up for what he did. After he killed Carmellina, I went and joined up with Las Aranas. I was 10, and by the time I was 16, I was el jefe. And I ain't looked back since. I guess I got me a knack for recruiting cause the gang got bigger soon after. We started swallowing up the littler gangs and pretty soon we got Armand's attention. He started supplying us with weapons and other stuff we needed. All we had to do was tell him what shit was going on and do him a few little favors. It was a real good working relationship. We got so much more power there wasn't nobody even close to us.

But then others got involved. Kathleen and her side stuck their noses in and it got to be a mess. Armand got caught and we ended up on our own. My cousin Rafael turned traitor and joined up with Miguel. I gotta get even with him still. I don't like traitors.

Wasn't long after that Chrisondra recruited me and turned me into a Greater Vampire. I got to working more than ever then. Four of my people are Greater Vampires now too and we're kicking some real ass. Miguel and his people still ain't down, mainly cause he's got help from his friends. But in the end we'll win cause Miguel's too fuckin' worried about his people to vamp 'em. Might have to be patient, but I got Bonnie with me now, so I ain't as worried about getting things done so fast. Cause of her, I got patience now.

Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning
-Stevie Smith

Everybody needs a revival
Get up off your knees and dance
It's fundamental to our survival
Get hell-bent on shaking that big white tent
Repent
-Kristyn Osborn