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| hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny Everywhere]]<br>[[Kim#Jenny's roommate|Kim]]
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| featuring= [[Professor Awesome]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small>
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| previous = ''[[Close Encounter of the Bird Kind (short story)|Close Encounter of the Bird Kind]]''
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| next = ''[[Fragment: Professional Ethics (short story)|Professional Ethics]]''
| next = ''[[Fragment: Professional Ethics (short story)|Professional Ethics]]''
}}'''''Fragment: Heavy Reading''''' was a short story by [[Scott Sanford]] in 2022. It was the seventh of Sanford's “Fragments” shorts.
}}'''''Fragment: Heavy Reading''''' was a short story by [[Scott Sanford]] in 2022. It was the sixth of Sanford's “Fragments” shorts.
== Contents ==
== Contents ==
===Plot ===
===Plot ===
[[Jenny Everywhere#Kim's friend|Jenny Everywhere]] exhausts her patience with a dense tome titled ''[[An Introduction to Recreational Metric Engineering]]'' and dramatically discards it on the floor. Her roommate [[Kim#Jenny's roommate|Kim]] inquires as to what caused this. Jenny explains that the book is an instruction manual on “changing the properties of local spacetime” but is so densely and pretentiously written that it’s inaccessible even to other Jennies.
[[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]] exhausts her patience with a dense tome titled ''[[An Introduction to Recreational Metric Engineering]]'' and dramatically discards it on the floor. Her roommate [[Kim (Parallax Universe)|Kim]] inquires as to what caused this. Jenny explains that the book is an instruction manual on “changing the properties of local spacetime” but is so densely and pretentiously written that it’s inaccessible even to other Jennies.


Kim guardedly asks why Jenny is reading such a thing and she admits that she wanted to know what was in it, as "next year" she’d left it out where [[Professor Awesome]] could read it and he was inspired to create the [[Time Pestle]].
Kim guardedly asks why Jenny is reading such a thing and she admits that she wanted to know what was in it, as "next year" she’d left it out where [[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Professor Awesome]] could read it and he was inspired to create the [[Time Pestle]].


They agree that this should not happen again and the book should be securely locked away.
They agree that this should not happen again and the book should be securely locked away.
===Worldbuilding===
====Jenny Everywhere====
* This story features [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|the usual Jenny]] used in [[Scott Sanford's Jenny Everywhere stories]].
====Universes====
* This story takes place in the “[[Parallax Universe|default universe]]” of [[Scott Sanford's Jenny Everywhere stories]].


===Continuity===
===Continuity===
* The [[Time Pestle]] had been mentioned before but not when it was created.
* The [[Time Pestle]] was first mentioned in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Pit Stop (novel)|Pit Stop]]'', and also name-dropped, in a parallel-universe version, in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Morning After (novel)|Morning After]]''.


== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==

Latest revision as of 02:45, 2 April 2023

Fragment: Heavy Reading was a short story by Scott Sanford in 2022. It was the sixth of Sanford's “Fragments” shorts.

Contents

Plot

Jenny Everywhere exhausts her patience with a dense tome titled An Introduction to Recreational Metric Engineering and dramatically discards it on the floor. Her roommate Kim inquires as to what caused this. Jenny explains that the book is an instruction manual on “changing the properties of local spacetime” but is so densely and pretentiously written that it’s inaccessible even to other Jennies.

Kim guardedly asks why Jenny is reading such a thing and she admits that she wanted to know what was in it, as "next year" she’d left it out where Professor Awesome could read it and he was inspired to create the Time Pestle.

They agree that this should not happen again and the book should be securely locked away.

Worldbuilding

Jenny Everywhere

Universes

Continuity

Behind the scenes

Background

When releasing the story on Dreamwidth in 2022, Scott Sanford appended some commentary to the story:

Over on the Discord server we happened to get on the subject of the Understanding Teleportation book that appeared as a background detail in Misunderstandings. This brought up the subject of what else Jenny Everywhere might be reading – or not reading – and I remembered I had a half written scene about that.
Scott Sanford


Read online

The story is available on the author's Dreamwidth website.