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Front hooves grip the oars like practiced hands.

The photographer told them to look cool. They complied.

Humanoid creature with fish-like face, hyper-realistic CGI render.

Red jerseys, dirt, bat, helmet, chain-link, mitts, cap.

Referred from Public Hygiene. Cross-file under Plumbing, Entomology.

Between two worlds, pale skin meets vivid borrowed plumage.

Octopus, wineglass, chandelier, portraits, flowers, fourteen figures, raccoon, minivan, Napoleon, place settings, red wine, white wine, silver cruet.

Filed under cross-cultural propaganda, subcategory: poultry.

Long neck, four legs, distended hindquarters, palm trees, volcano, water.

Science class tried, AI labels tried harder, mostly.

Step five places a mouth against feathers, unremarked.

Scales and silence, breakfast claimed by the deep.

Volume drops from 150 to 9 liters, unexplained.

Grief drips from the ceiling, cold and silver-scaled.

Even the platypuses seem confused by this situation.

Power chords echo where dynasties once ruled.