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The Extremely Unofficial Dotterel
Random inspiration: extremely unofficial dotterel
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The dotterel had been told, very seriously, that it was the unofficial mascot of the town’s annual biscuit appreciation society — a title conferred after a clerical error and never rescinded. It took the role with quiet diligence, though it had never tasted a biscuit before today. Now, perched on the chair it believed was its throne, it waited for the crumbs to speak. They did not. The bulb flickered once. The dotterel blinked. It remained.
The brief
A small, awkwardly posed dotterel stands on a faded floral armchair in a dimly lit living room, one wing slightly askew, staring blankly at a half-eaten biscuit on the coffee table, under the weak glow of a single bare bulb casting long, dull shadows across beige walls and a rug with a mysterious stain.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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