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"Sure Thing"
 
1977
Science Fiction Story
3
 

A race between two non-Earthly creatures has an unexpected winner.

OK, so it’s a Feghoot—a short-short ending with a bad pun. This one makes me laugh, and I enjoy it. It’s well set up and believable (more-or-less) up until the very last line, which makes it a winner for me.

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The Winds of Change and Other Stories
31
Opus 300
33
The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
 
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