“Hanging Curve”, by Gardner Dozois (originally published in _Fantasy and Science Fiction_, 2002).<\/p>\n
Okay, this is more like it! It’s the last game of the World Series,
\nbottom of the ninth, score’s 3-2, two out, two strikes, here’s the
\nwindup, and the pitch, annnnnnnnnnnd….. the ball stops. In mid-air,
\nright in front of the plate, immobile and unmoveable.<\/p>\n
Dozois takes us through the consequences of this utter impossibility
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\nto the people who were on the field when it happened, and to
\nscientific research and popular culture and… it’s all done very
\ncleanly, very plausibly. And then, at the end, it just… telling you
\n*how* it ends would really spoil it. But it made me laugh, and it’s
\ngenuine SF, and it’s what I’d been hoping to see in this anthology. If
\nall the contributors had been as apt at judging their ‘funniest’ as
\nDozois, there’d be no need for scare quotes.