Falling Short (short story)
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Falling Short was a Jenny Everywhere short story written by Robert Quick, the first of two stories released under the umbrella of The Many Lives of Jenny Everywhere.
It featured an in medias res snippet of an adventure of Jenny Everywhere, also introducing Professor Wulfe.
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Plot
At night, Jenny, in contact with the Professor through her iWatch, is infiltrating some kind of enemy territory in a hang glider. She asks the Professor to create a distraction, and he delivers in specular fashion by uncloaking his arship, the Harold's Purple Crayon, and switching on all its lights.
Worldbuilding
Jenny Everywhere
- This story features an incarnation of Jenny who can fly a hang glider and is engaging in reconnaissance work with the help of the Professor as tech support.
Universes
- This story takes place in a single universe about which not much is clear, although technologies including iWatches and airships are shown to exist within it.
Continuity
- PROSE: Old Foundations is a direct sequel to this story, picking up the moment the earlier one left off. It reveals the Professor's name as Professor Wulfe.
Behind the scenes
Read online
Falling Short was made available on Ficly, at this link, where it is still available.
