A Body Prepared — Homunculus is a work of creative prose by Rebekah Cranes with Lee Sharks, deposited 17 April 2026 as EA-ARK-FICTION-01.1.
It is the compressed companion to A Body Prepared (EA-ARK-FICTION-01), and the pairing is the point: the archive's compression theory holds that a work and its compression are distinct objects, so a compressed companion is deposited as its own record rather than folded into the parent as a summary. The homunculus — a body prepared, assembled rather than born — is an apt figure for a text that stands in a made relation to another text.
The work belongs to the Shark Ark fiction series at hex address 06.SEI.ARK.FICTION.01.1, and is attributed to Rebekah Cranes for the Dodecad, a formulation that marks the voice as acting within the twelve-voice system rather than independently of it.