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The Casually Immortal Tern
Random inspiration: casually immortal tern
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The tern had been there since Tuesday. Or perhaps since the Cretaceous. It did not blink, did not preen, did not acknowledge the dust motes drifting past its beak or the faint hum of the refrigerator downstairs. It had outlived three owners, a renovation, and a rumor that it was a taxidermy prank. No one had the heart to move it. It was, after all, just standing there. Waiting for nothing. Or everything. It was hard to tell which.
The brief
A white tern stands motionless on a sunlit windowsill, one leg slightly raised, its feathers catching the pale gold of late afternoon light that slants across a bare wooden floor and faded blue wall, casting a long, sharp shadow behind it like a punctuation mark.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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