Permanent link
The Extremely Unofficial Hamster
Random inspiration: extremely unofficial hamster
AI-generated painting and story
The story
Gerald was appointed Deputy Assistant to the Regional Paperclip Coordinator without paperwork, a badge, or a desk. He arrived at 9:00 a.m. and sat in the vacant chair. No one told him to leave. He waited for instructions that never came, paws folded, blue tie straight. The fluorescent light hummed above him for eight hours. At 5:00 p.m. he stood, walked to the door, and exited. His employment remained unofficial, unrecorded, and perfectly complete.
The brief
A beige hamster sits upright on a grey office chair beneath a single fluorescent tube. The room is empty beige plaster. Its paws rest on its knees. It wears a small blue bow tie. The light is flat and grey. The colours are beige, grey, blue.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
Comments and bookmarks
Comments are plain text from NPDev accounts. Bookmarks stay private to the account that saved them.
No comments yet. Be the first to say something.
Sign in to join the conversation.