The Szaclowk & the Halfworld (short story)
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Cupid Fact File #315: The Szaclowk & the Halfworld was a Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids short story written and illustrated by Aristide Twain.
Contents
Subjects
A Cupid Fact File describes the Halfworld and its inhabitants the Szaclowk, who mysteriously only exist as halves, mysteriously able to survive and act separately from their missing other halves. The same effect applies to any attempt to describe or discuss the Szaclowk, meaning that the available file is only “Part 1 of 2”, with Part 2 having automatically vanished as soon as it was written.
Worldbuilding
Universes
- The story describes the Halfworld, whose native name is “Gryeherkgthorf”.
Other
- Clockwork Cherubs have “voice-boxes”.
- The Szaclowk speak Szaclowkese, a language which “is not spoken per se, but rather articulated through extremely intricate clicking of kneecaps, of which the Szaclowk have two per leg”. According to the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Department of Linguistics, in Szaclowkese, the name “Szaclowk” itself means “First-Halves”.
- The Department of Phenomena doubt the Szaclowk's mythological explanation of the Halving. Multiple other Departments have proposed alternative explanations: for example, the Department of Cutlery “famously posited the existence of a Cosmic Cleaver”, and the Department of Applied Mathematics formulated “the Ultimate Fraction Interpretation”.
Continuity
- The Szaclowk would be referenced again in PROSE: New Warehouse To Be Constructed In The Homeworld and PROSE: The Cupid Parliament Destroyed?, both of which promise important revelations about the Szaclowk that are unsurprisingly cut off.
- PROSE: Father Christmas mentioned the Department of Phenomena again.
Behind the scenes
Read online
The story can be read on the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids website.
