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1991 C. Willis Learning to Write Comedy in Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy 82
The story would at first appear to be a science fiction story, complete with characters and a plot (one of my favorites, which I suppose is not strictly a Feghoot, since itβs by Damon Knight, was about a vegetable vampire that sucked the juice out of celery and carrots), but when you got to the end of the story, you realized you had been had and the last line was actually a punchline, or even worse, a pun (in the case of the veggy vampire, they drove a steak through his heart), and the whole story had been nothing more than a very long joke. |
