"Paul Di Filippo - And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon" - читать интересную книгу автора (Di Filippo Paul)

"That's ridiculous, Cody. Of course I do!"
"Then why can't we live together? We'd save
tons of rent. Do you think I have some nasty
habits that you don't know about? You've
seen me twenty-four-seven lots of times, at my
place and yours. It's not like I'm hiding
anything gross from you. I don't drink
straight out of the nutraceutical dispenser or
forget to reprogram the toilet after I've used
it."
"That's all true. You're easy to be with. Very
neat and responsible."
Cody shifted tactics, moving closer to me on
the couch and wrapping her lithe limbs
around me in ways impossible to ignore.
"And wouldn't it be nice to always have
someone to sleep with at night? Not to be
separate half the week or more? Huh?
Wouldn't it, Kaz?"
"Cody, please, stop! You know I can't think
when you do that." I unpeeled Cody from the
more sensitive parts of my anatomy.
"Everything you're saying is true. It's just
thatтАФ"
"And don't forget, if we ditched my place and
kept yours, I'd be much closer to work."
Cody worked at the Senate Casino, dealing
blackjack, but lived all the way out in Silver
Spring, Maryland. I knew the commute was a
bitch, even using the Hydrogen Express, since
when I slept over at her place I had to cover
the same distance myself. I, on the other
hand, rented a nice little townhouse in
Georgetown that I had moved into when rents
bottomed out during the PIG Plague
economic crash. It turned out I was one of a
small minority naturally immune to the new
Porcine Intestinal Grippe then rampant in
D.C., and so could safely live in an infected
building. Renter's market, for sure. But over
the last year or so, as the PIG immunization
program had gotten underway, rents had
begun creeping back up again. Cody was
right about it being only sensible to pool our
finances.
"I know you'd appreciate less roadtime, Cody,
but you seeтАФ"
Now Cody glowered. "Are you dating
someone else? You want to be free to play the
field? Is that it?"