The Hand You're Dealt

First published in the anthology , edited by Brad Linaweaver and Edward E. Kramer (Tor, 1997). This is the author’s preferred text as published in the anthology , 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