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The Inoffensively Strange Mackerel
Random inspiration: inoffensively strange mackerel
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The mackerel had been left there by the janitor, who swore he didn’t put it there. No one else remembered bringing it in. It didn’t smell. It didn’t move. It didn’t blink. For three days, the office staff ate lunch around it, then started leaving notes: ‘Nice scales.’ ‘Is it art?’ ‘Did you feed it?’ On the fourth morning, it was gone. The janitor shrugged. ‘Told you it was inoffensive.’
The brief
A single mackerel floats motionless in the center of a bare, sunlit room, its silver scales catching the pale morning light from a high window, surrounded by empty white walls and a faint shadow on the floor.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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