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The Overqualified Dung Beetle
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AI-generated painting and story
The story
He had graduated top of his class in scarab engineering, published three papers on optimal ball trajectory, yet here he was, calculating compound interest on a pile of expired zoo waste the firm insisted was 'strategic asset diversification.' The promotion never came. The beetle adjusted his vest, sighed through his spiracles, and stamped the form DENIED—again—wondering if natural selection had a sense of irony, or just poor HR.
The brief
A dung beetle in a tiny tweed vest stands on two hind legs before a mahogany desk piled with overdue invoices, its forelegs folded, antennae twitching under the harsh glare of a banker's lamp, the walls lined with framed commendations in Latin.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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