I let the image generator create many different versions of an alien with only one important characteristic that I specified: absurdly large feet (which is important to the story). I selected my favorite and then had the AI generate a side view as well. Here are these two views of this alien, the only visible character in my short story.

I need to plan how I am going to parcel out my video ideas. Approximately how many video projects will be assigned during this course.

Alien woman: Zardoz! The transdimensional transmogrifier is plugged up again. Go fix it. Alien man: Yes dear. Alien man (lifting item from guts of machine) This! Again! Alien man (walking back to house): I wish I knew what these things are, and where they keep coming from. Alien man (standing on porch of house and examining item): Maybe some day our scientists will find a use for these stupid things. I sure hope so.

An orphan reading a dusty spellbook summons a spirit meant to grant power, but it’s half angel, half demon—forever conflicted. Together, they must decide which side of themselves to feed.

The setting is an extremely alien environment. There is a house and a large, complex machine beside the house. A woman complains loudly to her husband that there is a problem with the machine and he needs to go out and fix it. He, a very alien being, plods sullenly from the house to the machine and pulls something out of its works, then carries it back to the house, mystified and angry. It ends with him making a short speech from his doorstep.