Isidore Wellby makes a timely pact with the devil’s demon.
Ten years of anything you want, within reason, and then you’re a demon. You’re one of us, with a new name of demonic potency, and many privileges beside. You’ll hardly know you’re damned.

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  1. “Gimmicks Three” by Isaac Asimov, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1956.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Isaac Asimov