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The Mildly Haunted Locust
Random inspiration: mildly haunted locust
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The locust had been haunting the apartment for three weeks, not with screams or cold spots, but by refusing to die. It sat where the tenant left it after swatting it with a rolled-up coupon, and now, every evening at 6:13, the light would dim just enough to make its shadow look like a tiny, disappointed frown. No one else noticed. The tenant, who had stopped trying to explain it, began leaving crumbs nearby. The locust never ate them. It just waited. For what, neither knew. The hum of the fridge was the only thing that kept it company.
The brief
A single locust hovers motionless on a cracked linoleum floor beneath a flickering fluorescent tube, its wings slightly ajar as if caught mid-sigh, the air thick with the faint greenish glow of unseen dust motes and the quiet hum of a refrigerator in the next room.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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