30 Pieces of a Novel (1994)
“More than thirty years later the cousin was killed there when he got into an argument with a hustler. The hustler was selling drugs; his cousin told him there were kids around so peddle his stuff somewhere else. The hustler told him to mind his business if he knows what’s good for him. His cousin said, “Why’d you come to Coney Island to sell your crap? This used to be a good place; my folks and I used to come here to an apartment every summer and you could walk along the boardwalk even late at ...night without guys like you screwing it up for people.” “Get lost, will you?” the hustler said. There were witnesses; they listened from a few feet off, didn’t butt in. “In Coney Island,” one witness said, “you don’t stick your nose into anything today. That’s the mistake this fellow made and that’s why he got killed. What used to be the old days hasn’t been those days for decades, you could say, so why’d he think that drug pusher would listen to him?” His cousin persisted: “Look, I want you to get off the boardwalk and stop selling your poison or I’m calling a cop.”MoreLess
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