Short Story Flop: Companyon

I'm participating in Anna Ladd's chatGPO exchange (skip to 10:37) . I think of it like a penpal postcard exchange: send people LLM-appropriate queries through a P.O. box proxy, receive your own, fulfill those prompts with all the meatbag personality you can muster, and cherish the responses you get in return. One of my prompts to fulfill was to write a short story. I've wanted to try my hand at…