Easy Money & Other Stories

<p style= margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;>When you live on the south shore of Long Island a few miles east of Queens mobsters aren't just characters you see in the movies sometimes they turn out to be</p><p style= margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;>friends of friends your neighbors guys who drink in the same bar as you. </p><p style= margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;><br></p><p style= margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;>Welcome to the borderland where the outskirts of New York City overlap with the Long Island suburbs. </p><p style=-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;><br></p><p style= margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;>Meet Tiny the giant Muscles Scooter Potatoes Babydoll and Thunder Zymborowski formerly known as Big Hoss the Jersey Strangler.</p><p style=-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;><br></p><p style= margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;>If you live here you may come to realize that crime -- organized crime semi-organized crime and horribly unorganized crime -- is taking place all around you.</p><p style=-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;><br></p><p style= margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;>In these darkly funny tales men and women face the consequences of their terrible decisions. People living too close to the edge wander still closer and fall off into darkness. </p><p style=-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;><br></p><p style= margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;>But there's also the sweetness of family friendship camaraderie first love and teenage heartache to lighten the mood.</p><p style=-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;><br></p><p style= margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;>Absurd raunchy grotesque subversive vulgar and violent -- these stories are also often hilarious and oddly touching.</p>