The Last Spin is a short story in Open Road. It was written by Evan Hunter. It tells about two young men, Digo and Danny, who are settling a conflict between their gangs by playing russian roulette. This story is mainly formed of dialog.
The story starts when Danny and Digo face each other around a table in the basement. They don’t want show their real emotions in the beginning to each other. When the game roll forward, they begin to understand each other. The game continues as the same time when the story’s main characters debate about the gang issues. It was a signal that they had bonded in the sort time, when Danny asked Tigo to come with him to the lake, even if they had been enemies. Tigo raised the level and added a second bullet to the gun. He slapped the cylinder and it whirled and the stopped. Tigo put the gun to his head and close his eyes when he pulled the trigger. He heard the empty click and put the gun down on the table. When it is Danny’s third time to pull the trigger, they make a plan to stop the game after it. If the gangs would not accept that they would start their own. The story ends when Danny pulled the trigger the last time and died. At the same same time Tigo put his head on the table and began weeping.
Sometimes the text was diffucult to read, as it appeared in a lot of colloquial language, like example ’street bopping”, what means that when some people fight in the street. The text was still a well-written and rolled forward smoothly. The short story is good in my opinion, even in the beginning of the text it could not get me interested about the plot. The final part of the text hooked me to read it more and more specifically.
