A short story about a deal with the devil
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I'm looking for the name of a short story about a man who has a pact with the devil that requires him to to get a story about a pact with the devil published in a magazine. The editor keeps turning him down. It shows the editor himself has a pact with the devil not to publish short stories about pacts with the devil.
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I'm looking for the name of a short story about a man who has a pact with the devil that requires him to to get a story about a pact with the devil published in a magazine. The editor keeps turning him down. It shows the editor himself has a pact with the devil not to publish short stories about pacts with the devil.
story-identification short-stories
edited Aug 26 at 20:37
Edlothiad
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asked Aug 26 at 20:26
Terezie Chamráthová
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Wow that sounds like a lot of "pact-with-the-devil-ception"... Seems interesting! To help you find your story, do you remember when you may have read it? Whether it was in an anthology with various other authors or all works from one author? If you haven't already, can I suggest you take a look at this checklist and see if you can edit in any more details?
– Edlothiad
Aug 26 at 20:39
The story sounds very familiar. Do you think it was in one of the Asimov edited anthologies?
– Emsley Wyatt
Aug 26 at 21:22
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I'm looking for the name of a short story about a man who has a pact with the devil that requires him to to get a story about a pact with the devil published in a magazine. The editor keeps turning him down. It shows the editor himself has a pact with the devil not to publish short stories about pacts with the devil.
story-identification short-stories
edited Aug 26 at 20:37
Edlothiad
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asked Aug 26 at 20:26
Terezie Chamráthová
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I'm looking for the name of a short story about a man who has a pact with the devil that requires him to to get a story about a pact with the devil published in a magazine. The editor keeps turning him down. It shows the editor himself has a pact with the devil not to publish short stories about pacts with the devil.
story-identification short-stories
story-identification short-stories
edited Aug 26 at 20:37
Edlothiad
54.1k20284294
asked Aug 26 at 20:26
Terezie Chamráthová
762
edited Aug 26 at 20:37
Edlothiad
54.1k20284294
asked Aug 26 at 20:26
Terezie Chamráthová
762
edited Aug 26 at 20:37
Edlothiad
54.1k20284294
edited Aug 26 at 20:37
Edlothiad
54.1k20284294
edited Aug 26 at 20:37
Edlothiad
54.1k20284294
54.1k20284294
asked Aug 26 at 20:26
Terezie Chamráthová
762
asked Aug 26 at 20:26
Terezie Chamráthová
762
asked Aug 26 at 20:26
Terezie Chamráthová
762
762
1
Wow that sounds like a lot of "pact-with-the-devil-ception"... Seems interesting! To help you find your story, do you remember when you may have read it? Whether it was in an anthology with various other authors or all works from one author? If you haven't already, can I suggest you take a look at this checklist and see if you can edit in any more details?
– Edlothiad
Aug 26 at 20:39
The story sounds very familiar. Do you think it was in one of the Asimov edited anthologies?
– Emsley Wyatt
Aug 26 at 21:22
add a comment |Â
1
Wow that sounds like a lot of "pact-with-the-devil-ception"... Seems interesting! To help you find your story, do you remember when you may have read it? Whether it was in an anthology with various other authors or all works from one author? If you haven't already, can I suggest you take a look at this checklist and see if you can edit in any more details?
– Edlothiad
Aug 26 at 20:39
The story sounds very familiar. Do you think it was in one of the Asimov edited anthologies?
– Emsley Wyatt
Aug 26 at 21:22
1
1
Wow that sounds like a lot of "pact-with-the-devil-ception"... Seems interesting! To help you find your story, do you remember when you may have read it? Whether it was in an anthology with various other authors or all works from one author? If you haven't already, can I suggest you take a look at this checklist and see if you can edit in any more details?
– Edlothiad
Aug 26 at 20:39
Wow that sounds like a lot of "pact-with-the-devil-ception"... Seems interesting! To help you find your story, do you remember when you may have read it? Whether it was in an anthology with various other authors or all works from one author? If you haven't already, can I suggest you take a look at this checklist and see if you can edit in any more details?
– Edlothiad
Aug 26 at 20:39
The story sounds very familiar. Do you think it was in one of the Asimov edited anthologies?
– Emsley Wyatt
Aug 26 at 21:22
The story sounds very familiar. Do you think it was in one of the Asimov edited anthologies?
– Emsley Wyatt
Aug 26 at 21:22
add a comment |Â
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If At First You Don't Succeed, To Hell with It by Charles E. Fritch. First published in the August 1972 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. That issue is available to read online at the Internet Archive here.
You may have read it reprinted in an Asimov edited collection, "100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories".
The story is only a few pages long, but very funny. It is written as a series of letters between the author and the magazine editor. The author tries repeatedly to sneak variations of the story past the editor with titles like Pact with a Devil's Food Bakery and Packed with the Devil Fish.
answered Aug 26 at 22:06
Tim
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So round, so firm, so fully packed with the devil.
– Emsley Wyatt
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If At First You Don't Succeed, To Hell with It by Charles E. Fritch. First published in the August 1972 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. That issue is available to read online at the Internet Archive here.
You may have read it reprinted in an Asimov edited collection, "100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories".
The story is only a few pages long, but very funny. It is written as a series of letters between the author and the magazine editor. The author tries repeatedly to sneak variations of the story past the editor with titles like Pact with a Devil's Food Bakery and Packed with the Devil Fish.
answered Aug 26 at 22:06
Tim
50116
3
So round, so firm, so fully packed with the devil.
– Emsley Wyatt
Aug 27 at 0:33
add a comment |Â
up vote
22
down vote
If At First You Don't Succeed, To Hell with It by Charles E. Fritch. First published in the August 1972 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. That issue is available to read online at the Internet Archive here.
You may have read it reprinted in an Asimov edited collection, "100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories".
The story is only a few pages long, but very funny. It is written as a series of letters between the author and the magazine editor. The author tries repeatedly to sneak variations of the story past the editor with titles like Pact with a Devil's Food Bakery and Packed with the Devil Fish.
answered Aug 26 at 22:06
Tim
50116
3
So round, so firm, so fully packed with the devil.
– Emsley Wyatt
Aug 27 at 0:33
add a comment |Â
up vote
22
down vote
up vote
22
down vote
If At First You Don't Succeed, To Hell with It by Charles E. Fritch. First published in the August 1972 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. That issue is available to read online at the Internet Archive here.
You may have read it reprinted in an Asimov edited collection, "100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories".
The story is only a few pages long, but very funny. It is written as a series of letters between the author and the magazine editor. The author tries repeatedly to sneak variations of the story past the editor with titles like Pact with a Devil's Food Bakery and Packed with the Devil Fish.
answered Aug 26 at 22:06
Tim
50116
If At First You Don't Succeed, To Hell with It by Charles E. Fritch. First published in the August 1972 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. That issue is available to read online at the Internet Archive here.
You may have read it reprinted in an Asimov edited collection, "100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories".
The story is only a few pages long, but very funny. It is written as a series of letters between the author and the magazine editor. The author tries repeatedly to sneak variations of the story past the editor with titles like Pact with a Devil's Food Bakery and Packed with the Devil Fish.
answered Aug 26 at 22:06
Tim
50116
edited Aug 26 at 23:43
answered Aug 26 at 22:06
Tim
50116
answered Aug 26 at 22:06
Tim
50116
answered Aug 26 at 22:06
Tim
50116
50116
3
So round, so firm, so fully packed with the devil.
– Emsley Wyatt
Aug 27 at 0:33
add a comment |Â
3
So round, so firm, so fully packed with the devil.
– Emsley Wyatt
Aug 27 at 0:33
3
3
So round, so firm, so fully packed with the devil.
– Emsley Wyatt
Aug 27 at 0:33
So round, so firm, so fully packed with the devil.
– Emsley Wyatt
Aug 27 at 0:33
add a comment |Â
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Wow that sounds like a lot of "pact-with-the-devil-ception"... Seems interesting! To help you find your story, do you remember when you may have read it? Whether it was in an anthology with various other authors or all works from one author? If you haven't already, can I suggest you take a look at this checklist and see if you can edit in any more details?
– Edlothiad
Aug 26 at 20:39
The story sounds very familiar. Do you think it was in one of the Asimov edited anthologies?
– Emsley Wyatt
Aug 26 at 21:22