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The Deeply Municipal Puffin
Random inspiration: deeply municipal puffin
AI-generated painting and story
The story
D. Puffin had been processing Form 7B for seventeen minutes when the coffee machine sputtered and died. He did not sigh. He did not look up. Instead, he adjusted his blazer, tapped his beak once against the edge of Form 7B, and slid it into the 'Approved' tray. The fluorescent light buzzed. The vent rattled. Somewhere down the hall, a photocopier jammed. D. Puffin blinked slowly, then reached for the next form. It was Tuesday. The permits would wait.
The brief
A puffin stands upright on a linoleum floor in a fluorescent-lit municipal office, wearing a slightly-too-large navy blazer with a name tag reading 'D. Puffin, Permits', one flipper resting on a stack of beige forms under the hum of a ceiling vent.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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