Fragment: The Summoning (short story)
Fragment: The Summoning was a Jenny Everywhere short story written by Scott Sanford in 2022. It was the third of Sanford's “Fragments” shorts, after Fragment: Frogs and Fragment: Nowhere Plan.
Contents
Plot
Sneaking around in a dark alley at night, Jenny is snuck upon by her friend Kim, who asks her what she's up to. She shows her a badly-typed flyer advertising a ritual to “SUMMUN STAAN”, explaining that she wants to make sure that the cultists don't, against all odds, succeed in summoning something dangerous. After Kim uses her mysterious abilities to help Jenny enter the empty storefront where they've set up shop, however, it becomes clear they misread the typo: while they do successfully summon the object of their worship, it's not Satan but the benign Stan.
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.
Other
- Kim twice displays an apparent ability to teleport, without Jenny seeing quite how she did it. Kim insists that “dimensional shenanigans are definitely [Jenny's] thing”, leaving it ambiguous quite what supernatural ability Kim was actually using.
Behind the scenes
Background
When releasing the story on Dreamwidth in 2022, Scott Sanford appended some commentary to the story:
| Okay, yes, I went there. It is a horrible pun. Also, mood whiplash ahead! |
| —Scott Sanford |
Read online
The story is available on the author's Dreamwidth website.
