First published in the anthology Free Space, edited by Brad Linaweaver and Edward E. Kramer (Tor, 1997). This is the author’s preferred text as published in the anthology Crossing the Line: Canadian Mystery Fiction With A Twist, edited by Robert J. Sawyer David Skene-Melvin (Pottersfield, 1999) Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1998. Nominated for Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award in 1998