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The Extremely Unofficial Crocodile
Random inspiration: extremely unofficial crocodile
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The crocodile had been promoted to Intern after a clerical error in the Department of Wetland Liaisons mistook its application for a human’s. It showed up every day at 8:15 a.m., stood perfectly still by the water cooler, and nodded when spoken to — though no one was sure if it understood. It never filed paperwork, but somehow, the coffee machine always worked better when it was nearby. No one dared ask why it was there. No one dared ask it to leave.
The brief
A lone crocodile stands stiffly upright in a dimly lit municipal office hallway, wearing a slightly crooked name tag that reads 'Intern' and holding a half-empty coffee cup in its snout, while flickering fluorescent lights cast a sickly green glow over peeling beige wallpaper and a forgotten potted fern.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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