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

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

Behind the scenes

Read online

Falling Short was made available on Ficly, at this link, where it is still available.