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The Mildly Haunted Loon
Random inspiration: mildly haunted loon
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The loon had been haunted for exactly three weeks, though it never complained. The haunting was mild: a persistent chill in its left wing, the occasional whisper of a forgotten lunch order, and the inexplicable urge to hum show tunes underwater. It had tried ignoring it, then negotiating, then offering the ghost a worm. The ghost declined, said it was ‘more of a silence person,’ and settled for occasionally rearranging the loon’s reflection to look mildly disappointed. The loon accepted this. It was, after all, a loon. It had standards.
The brief
A single loon floats motionless in a shallow, dimly lit pond at twilight, its feathers slightly ruffled as if stirred by an unseen breath, the water around it faintly glowing with a pale, sickly green hue, reeds bending inward without wind.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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