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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Fragment: Heavy Reading'' (short story)}}{{Short Story | {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Fragment: Heavy Reading'' (short story)}}{{Short Story | ||
| title1= ''Fragment: Heavy Reading'' | | title1= ''Fragment: Heavy Reading'' | ||
| image1= | | image1= Heavy Reading - Title.png | ||
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| other_titles= | | other_titles= | ||
| hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere | | hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]]<br>[[Kim (Parallax Universe)|Kim]] | ||
| villain(s)= | | villain(s)= | ||
| featuring= [[Professor Awesome]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small> | | featuring= [[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Professor Awesome]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small> | ||
| setting= [[Universe | | setting= [[Parallax Universe]] | ||
| crossovers = | | crossovers = | ||
| length= 379 words | | length= 379 words | ||
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== Contents == | == Contents == | ||
===Plot === | ===Plot === | ||
[[Jenny Everywhere | [[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]] | * 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 == | ||