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The Barely Employed Komodo Dragon
Random inspiration: barely employed komodo dragon
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The komodo dragon had been hired last Tuesday for data entry, though no one remembered why. It typed slowly, deliberately, each keystroke a small victory against entropy. The supervisor left a sticky note: 'Try harder.' The dragon blinked once, then licked the note. Outside, the city hummed with interviews it would never attend. Inside, the printer jammed again. It sighed—a low, wet sound—and waited for the next shift to begin, or end, whichever came first.
The brief
A komodo dragon sits hunched on a cracked vinyl office chair beneath a flickering fluorescent light, one claw resting on a keyboard labeled 'Temp Agency', its tail draped over a half-empty coffee mug and a stack of unopened 'Job Applications' forms, the walls painted beige with a single motivational poster peeling at the corner.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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