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The Extremely Unofficial Locust
Random inspiration: extremely unofficial locust
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The locust had been appointed Deputy Minister of Unofficial Affairs by a committee that no longer met. It took the role seriously, attending to paperwork that did not exist and answering calls on a disconnected phone. Today, it practiced the ceremonial raise of the foreleg—a gesture meant to signal 'I have noted your concern'—in preparation for a visit that would never come. The room waited with it.
The brief
A single locust sits upright on a wooden stool in a dim, beige-walled room, one foreleg raised as if mid-gesture, its wings folded neatly, the light falling flat and gray from a bare bulb overhead, casting no shadow.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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