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The Seasonally Adjusted Mandrill
Random inspiration: seasonally adjusted mandrill
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The mandrill had been seasonally adjusted last Tuesday, which meant it now reported to work at 9:00 a.m. sharp, regardless of sunlight or savanna instincts. It reviewed the quarterly foliage metrics with quiet diligence, noting a 3.2% decline in ripe fig availability. No one questioned its presence in the HR annex; the blazer had been issued, the badge scanned. Outside, the rains came late. Inside, the mandrill tapped its pen once, waited for the hum of the vent to shift pitch, and filed the report under 'B' for 'Baffling but Within Tolerance'.
The brief
A mandrill stands upright in a featureless beige room, wearing a slightly crooked navy blazer and holding a clipboard, its brightly colored face expressionless under flat fluorescent lighting that casts no shadows.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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