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A pretty good jammer, it put out a wide field, which meant it was illegal to use it around any electronics advanced enough to have civil rights, which meant that it was illegal everywhere in the Trap and most of the burbsbut out in the West End?

When the case I'm telling you about came up I had my little place in the burbs, on Juarez Street, and I could see the lights of Trap Over all the more clearly for the added distance.

Of course, I won't lie to youI wasn't out in the burbs by choice, not really.

That left the burbs, from the Trap to the crater's rim, so that's where I went.

When I was a girl they'd had to make do with doorways or alleys in the outer burbs, or caves in the crater wall, but they'd been moving inward for years.

Chapter Five THE STREETS OF THE TRAP ARE BLACKNOT JUST THE dark stone of the burbs but smooth black synthetic.

This time, with the reduced opportunities out in the burbs, I hadn't rushed at all, and I hadn't found anything, either, not even the occasional one-shot.

I realized that I didn't know, and that I had no way to find out while I was walking the streets of the eastern burbs.

The Trap was big and bright and a million vivid colors out the cab's window on the right, the burbs mostly low and in dim shades of gray on the left.

And you've been surviving out in the burbs on nothing for years, and that must be damn near impossible.

Did I really want to stay in Nightside City, in my rundown little office in the burbs, taking two-buck jobs from the dregs of the city, hanging out at Lui's because I wasn't welcome anywhere better, ignored by my friends back in the Trap and by my father dreaming eternally in Trap Underjust sitting and waiting for the sun?

The long boring stretch that you get to fill with fun and excitement, if you can find any in the burbs.

The 'burbs on Terra are the worst burbs of all : a thick layer of middle-income housing with high security and plenty of boredom.

Everyone knows those folks from the burbs only want dinner theater stuff.