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The Fashionably Late Mistletoebird
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AI-generated painting and story
The story
The mistletoebird had promised to be punctual for the annual Yuletide Avian Gala, but a misread timetable and a detour through a bakery’s vent shaft left it arriving precisely fourteen minutes after the last guest had departed. It now sits on the clock, blinking slowly at the stopped hands, wondering if anyone would notice if it just pretended to be part of the decoration. The sherry, it decides, can wait.
The brief
A small, disheveled mistletoebird perches awkwardly on a gilded grandfather clock in a dim Victorian parlor, one claw tangled in a stray sprig of mistletoe, its feathers slightly ruffled as if it just arrived through an open window, while candlelight pools amber on faded wallpaper and a half-empty sherry glass sits abandoned on a side table.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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