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The Deeply Municipal Coral Snake
Random inspiration: deeply municipal coral snake
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The snake had been there since Tuesday. No one had reported it. It didn’t move when Brenda brought the photocopier toner, nor when Dave sighed and leaned against the wall waiting for the elevator. It simply watched, tongue flicking once every seventeen seconds, as if timing the intervals between bureaucratic sighs. By Friday, the intern left a tiny paper crown on its head. No one removed it.
The brief
A coral snake coils neatly atop a beige municipal filing cabinet in a fluorescent-lit government office hallway, its bands sharply contrasted against the dull walls, while a half-empty coffee mug and a stapler sit untouched on the desk beside it, under the hum of a single overhead light.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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