Homunculi

We used to think life could be coaxed if you assembled the right materials and watched closely enough.

We used to think life could be coaxed if you assembled the right materials and watched closely enough. Semen in a glass flask. Early menstrual blood. An egg. Sometimes a chicken egg. Sometimes sweat scraped from a mare in heat. The manuals disagreed on specifics but not on structure. Seal it. Warm it. Wait. Something small might begin to move.

The homunc…