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The Vaguely Governmental Caribou
Random inspiration: vaguely governmental caribou
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The caribou had been promoted to Acting Deputy Director of Northern Wildlife Liaison after a clerical error misfiled its migration paperwork as a personnel transfer. It did not correct the mistake, finding the blazer comforting and the sticky notes useful for remembering which forms required triplicate. Every Tuesday, it stood in this hallway, waiting for the 3:15 p.m. briefing on lichen allocation quotas, though no one had yet told it the meeting had been canceled six months ago. It still waited. The janitor, who had once been a poet, left the sticky notes. He said they made the caribou look less like a mistake and more like a tradition.
The brief
A caribou wearing a slightly too large grey blazer stands stiffly in a fluorescent-lit office hallway, one hoof resting on a filing cabinet labeled 'Permits – Subsection 7', while a flickering exit sign casts a pale green glow over its antlers, which are adorned with three small, official-looking sticky notes.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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