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First published in Crossed Genres #30, "Luck."Time travel in a multiverse sounded great…except that some of inventor Beauregard's alternate selves aren't so nice. Now he's a private dick hiring himself out to try to clean up the mess he made. Beauregard is called to investigate the gruesome death of a girl who was crushed to death while her babysitter watched TV downstairs. Due to the nature of the death, he already knows that the Outlander-a version of himself trapped outside the multiverse-is involved…but how?