A very short story, only five pages, but nice. From Dave's point of view. He's about to have his cousin Eddie killed. Dave is a gang boss, and Eddie dared bother his woman Karen, so she called two killer from outside: Dave is now waiting for Eddie, then he'll point him to the killers and they'll shoot him dead, but things don't go as 'he' had planned. When Eddie arrives, the killers join him and they follow Dave! Betrayal! Karen and Eddie together had planned to kill him! He runs, but can't find anywhere to hide (how nice that a gang boss would not try to hide among the crowd to avoid putting them in danger...) until he sees a phone box. He thinks 'I'll call the police, for once' but he's a man who always wanted to be great and hated coins, stuff for poor people, he never kept coins, he never took the change when he bought something, he even hated touching the coins, so now he can't make his call. He has lots of dollar bills in his pockets that are perfectly useless. The three men reach him and shoot him and he dies holding the useless bills in his hands...
ITA in grande stile
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