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The Mildly Haunted Gannet
Random inspiration: mildly haunted gannet
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The gannet had been told it was mildly haunted, which it accepted with the same quiet resignation it applied to moulting season and the occasional misjudged dive. It did not flinch when the air hummed just behind its left wing, nor when the salt smell briefly turned to burnt toast. It waited, as it always did, for the tide to remember how to move.
The brief
A lone gannet stands motionless on a wooden pier under a flat grey sky, its feathers slightly ruffled as if stirred by a breeze that isn't there, one eye half-closed, the other fixed on a patch of rust near its claw, the water below unnervingly still and the colour of cold tea.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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