From: Hard Boiled Brooklyn, ed. Reed Farrel Coleman. Bleak House Books, 2006.
After glancing at an attractive woman on a subway platform, divorced father Sussman looks back to see his six-year-old son speeding away on a Coney Island-bound F train.
Woefully out of sorts and out of shape, Sussman darts about in search of a phone to call 911. As fear consumes him, Sussman tangles with a younger, stronger man who refuses to yield a pay phone to him.
This is a nightmare scenario worsened by a character who has almost no chance of handling it. Nicely noir.
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