Fragment: Guinevere and Mordred (short story)
Fragment: Guinevere and Mordred was a short story by Scott Sanford in 2022. It was the eighth of Sanford's “Fragments” shorts.
Despite the title, it made no use of actual Arthurian mythos; it was an extended reference to the nicknaming of the John F. Kennedy administration as “Camelot”, with Mordred, King Arthur's killer, here being Lee Harvey Oswald, while “Guinevere” is of course simply Jenny herself.
Contents
Plot
On a very fateful day at half past noon, Jenny Everywhere is standing with a rifle on the rooftop of a building on the other side of Dealy Plaza from where another man with a gun is standing. Only knowing where he is thanks to her interdimensional foreknowledge, she shoots him before he can take a shot at the President's car below. Not bothering to watch what happens next, she walks away from her vantage point, preparing to shift before authorities can come looking.
Worldbuilding
Jenny Everywhere
- This story features a Jenny confirmed by the Table of Contents to be distinct from the usual Jenny used in Scott Sanford's Jenny Everywhere stories.
Universes
- This story takes place in a universe which seems to match real-world history up until Jenny uses her knowledge of other possible histories to stop the Kennedy assassination.
Behind the scenes
Background
When releasing the story on Dreamwidth in 2022, Scott Sanford appended some commentary to the story:
| I hope I haven’t written the next New York Chaos… (I’ve been reminded that the Kennedy Camelot was a more familiar metaphor fifty years ago.) |
| —Scott Sanford |
Read online
The story is available on the author's Dreamwidth website.
