（外文电子版资料）George Alec Effinger - Slow, Slow Burn.pdf

Science Fiction By George Alec Effinger contemporary Slow, Slow Burn by George Alec Effinger Fictionwise This ebook is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Copyright ©1988 by George Alec Effinger First published in Playboy, May 1988 NOTICE: This ebook is licensed to the original purchaser only. Duplication or distribution to any person via email, floppy disk, network, print out, or any other means is a violation of International copyright law and subjects the violator to severe fines and/or imprisonment. COVER DESIGN BY CHRIS HARDWICK This ebook is displayed using 100% recycled electrons. 2 Slow, Slow Burn by George Alec Effinger All right, this is the way I picture it: Were in a busy midtown brass-and-fern bar, OK? Table on the sidewalk, umbrella says CINZANO on it, well see. Two women poking at salads, glasses of white wine. Theyre dressed very nice, expensive but not flashy, they pay attention to details, they accessorize, know what I mean? Ones older, see, shes the mother, though you dont see the age difference. They could be sisters. Both blondes. The older ones got kind of a suit on, shes the dynamic woman on the go. The daughter sort of mirrors that, a subtle thing, nice blouse that says shes shopping the right stores, and shes never more than fifteen minutes out of