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The Mildly Haunted Whydah
Random inspiration: mildly haunted whydah
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The whydah had been dead for three years, though it refused to admit it. Each evening, it returned to the same hook, preening its nonexistent feathers and muttering about unfinished business. The ghost behind it was its former rival, who had died laughing after losing a singing contest. Neither could leave. The bulb buzzed. The wallpaper peeled. Time, meanwhile, had gone to make tea.
The brief
A whydah bird perches stiffly on a rusted coat hook in a dim hallway, its feathers slightly ruffled as if disturbed by a draft, while a translucent silhouette of a smaller bird hovers just behind it, flickering faintly in the sickly yellow light of a single bare bulb.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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