"Nancy Kress - And No Such Things Grow Here" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kress Nancy)

Carolina.

For once, Perri anticipated her. "I think they took me to Rikers because it was an offshore offense. On a boat.
A ship, really. . . . Get away! IтАЩm not done, you bitch!"

Dee said rapidly, "Relinquish the phone, Perri, before you get hurt. You had your two minutes. IтАЩll be there
as soon as I can."

"Oh, Dee, IтАЩmтАУ" The phone went dead.

Dee stood holding it uselessly. Perri was what? Sorry? Scared? Innocent? But Perri was always those things
in her own mind. Maybe Dee should just leave her there. Get out of PerriтАЩs life once and for all. Teach Perri a
lesson. Just leave her there to fend for herself for once. . . .

But Dee was all too familiar with Rikers. SheтАЩd retired from the force less than a year ago. She started to
dress.

"Why me?" Eliot Kramer said when he appeared at her fourth-floor, one-room apartment door just after
dawn. Grimy sunshine glared through DeeтАЩs big south window, the only nice thing about her room, other
than its being on the far edge of Queens rather than the near edge. Many people were afraid of sunshine