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The Barely Employed Muskrat
Random inspiration: barely employed muskrat
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The muskrat had been employed for exactly seventeen minutes before the company realized it had no job description for a muskrat. It was given a desk, a sandwich, and a calendar to mark the days it wasn’t fired. Each morning, it arrived at 8:03 a.m., sat upright, and waited. No one spoke to it. No one asked it to do anything. It ate the same sandwich every day — turkey, no mayo — and stared at the calendar, waiting for the day it would be told to leave. Today, it was told nothing. It stayed until 5:00 p.m., then walked home, still wearing the blazer, still waiting for instructions.
The brief
A muskrat in a slightly rumpled blazer stands on two hind legs beside a small wooden desk under a single bare bulb, holding a half-eaten sandwich and staring blankly at a calendar with all days crossed out except one, in a dim, beige office with peeling wallpaper and a flickering fluorescent tube in the corner.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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