Short Fiction · Character
Lt. Scott
A military lieutenant.
minor
Also known as Scott
First appearance: the gun
Lt. Scott's tie to Major Hendricks is one of the pressures that moves Short Fiction—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.
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With Major Hendricks (professional): Lt. Scott reports to Major Hendricks as a junior officer, maintaining a formal military hierarchy. With Major Hendricks (professional): Lt. Scott reports to Major Hendricks as a…
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Relationship types
- Professional
- Other
Character groups
- Military soldiers
- Cloned or artificial humans
- Aliens and psychological experiments
- Small town and sentient spaceship
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Closing
This scene is the dramatic climax because it crystallizes the emotional chasm between Doris and Larry: Doris’s…
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- Major Hendricks
professional · ambivalent
- Major Hendricks
professional · ambivalent
- Major Hendricks
professional · ambivalent
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