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The Overqualified Oriole
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AI-generated painting and story
The story
The oriole had graduated top of its class in avian jurisprudence, passed the bar with distinction, and was offered partnership at three firms before choosing this: a tenure-track position in the Department of Ornithological Precedent at a university that did not know what to do with it. It sat each morning, waiting for a case that would never come, its briefs meticulously filed, its feathers immaculate, its potential quietly rusting in the silence of a room that admired it too much to ever ask it to do anything.
The brief
An oriole in a tiny tweed waistcoat stands rigidly on a mahogany desk, one claw resting on an open law textbook, the other holding a fountain pen poised above a blank sheet of paper, under the flat, grey light of a northern window in a cluttered academic office filled with unread journals and a half-empty teacup.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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