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The Barely Employed Abalone
Random inspiration: barely employed abalone
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The abalone had been employed, briefly, as a paperweight in a real estate office that closed after the market crashed. It was left behind during the eviction, deemed too heavy to move and too strange to throw away. Now it rests where the janitor dropped it after his shift, waiting for someone to notice it’s still alive—or at least, not quite dead. The fluorescent light hums. The abalone does not move. It has not been paid in three weeks.
The brief
A single abalone lies on its side atop a chipped beige linoleum floor in a dimly lit kitchen, its shell slightly open, one antenna twitching weakly under the flicker of a failing fluorescent bulb overhead, casting a sickly greenish hue over the dull yellow walls and a half-empty mug of cold coffee nearby.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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