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The Mildly Haunted Takahe
Random inspiration: mildly haunted takahe
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The takahe had been dead for three weeks, though no one had noticed until the teacup began to refill itself every Tuesday at precisely 3:17 p.m. The bird, unbothered, continued to stand where it had fallen, as if waiting for the next sip. The lamp flickered. The wallpaper sighed. No one came to investigate. The haunting was, after all, mild.
The brief
A solitary takahe stands motionless on a faded floral rug in a dimly lit Victorian parlour, one claw slightly lifted as if mid-step, its feathers dulled by dust and the faint glow of a single shaded lamp casting long, quiet shadows across peeling wallpaper and a half-empty teacup 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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