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The Vaguely Governmental Coral Snake
Random inspiration: vaguely governmental coral snake
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The snake had been promoted last Tuesday after correctly filing Form 7B in triplicate without being asked. It didn’t speak, but its posture conveyed satisfaction. Colleagues avoided its desk, not out of fear, but because it had once corrected the intern’s margin alignment with a single, precise flick of its tail. Today, it waited for the 3 p.m. audit — not because it was required, but because the snake believed in routine. The coffee had gone cold. No one dared to move it.
The brief
A coral snake with faint bureaucratic insignia coiled neatly atop a beige filing cabinet in a fluorescent-lit office hallway, its head tilted slightly as if reviewing a memo, surrounded by stacked manila folders and a half-drunk cup of black coffee on a metal tray.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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