LIVE! in Brooklyn: "Playing Nice with God's Bowling Ball" by N.K. Jemisin, originally published in the August 2008 issue of Jim Baen’s Universe. “Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball,” is a fantastical police procedural, detectives are perplexed when a young boy confesses to a murder. A police detective tries to understand how a children’s dispute over a playing card could have led to a mysterious disappearance.