Fragment: Professional Ethics (short story)
Fragment: Professional Ethics was a short story by Scott Sanford in 2022. It was the seventh of Sanford's “Fragments” shorts. To date this is the only one of Scott Sanford's Jenny Everywhere stories not to directly feature Jenny Everywhere.
Contents
Plot
Professor Awesome is working in his bedroom when Kim arrives and asks him what he’s up to.
He explains that he was cornered by Coach Haggard at school and browbeaten into building a mad science device to do something about the hormonal excesses of junior high school kids. He’s currently building an area effect heteronormalizer that will totally do that “as far as Coach Haggard knows.” Also, he is grossly overcharging for this gadget.
He asks if this is unethical. Kim allows that it’s unethical to sell something under false pretenses, but also that the situation is awful and the coach deserves what he gets. Professor Awesome agrees that he won’t make a habit of it.
Worldbuilding
Jenny Everywhere
- This story features the usual Jenny used in Scott Sanford's Jenny Everywhere stories.
Universes
- This story takes place in the “default universe” of Scott Sanford's Jenny Everywhere stories.
Behind the scenes
Background
When releasing the story on Dreamwidth in 2022, Scott Sanford appended some commentary to the story:
| I was trying to make progress on some serious stories. What I got instead was the return of the Puritan Streaker. And then this came out. |
| —Scott Sanford |
Read online
The story is available on the author's Dreamwidth website.
