《Killing Time》作者： - Kristine Kathryn Rusch【EPUB】

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A Time for Every Purpose by Kristine Kathryn Rusch ====================== Fictionwise Contemporary Science Fiction Nebula Award(R) Finalist; Year's 25 Best Mystery and Crime Stories Pick Shaunessy sat on the step leading into the laundromat. His jeans were faded, his hair tousled, and he clutched a superball in his slender, unlined right hand. He wore a ripped Moetley Cruee T-shirt that made him feel less than he was. He repeated his title to himself for reassurance: Shaunessy. Detective. Homicide. Time Force. The summer heat, thick with humidity, surrounded him. He remembered the neighborhood well. Throughout his childhood, they had called it Willy Street. Its run-down buildings were home for the city's poor, the counterculture, and the vagrants. By now, 1994, the renovation project that had started in 1986 had blossomed into a revived neighborhood: rejuvenated Victorian homes stood beside houses that hadn't seen paint or repair since the mid-1930s. The residents of the redesigned homes now called the area Williamson Street. In another decade, only the aging hippies who had never been able to leave Madison would use the area's nickname. He remembered the neighborhood well. But he hadn't remembered what it was like to be fourteen. Shaunessy ran his hand through his soft hair, feeling the dampness of sweat at the roots. His heart seemed to be beating twice as fast