The Overlords gave ChatGPT and I a song about grandeur and the rot inside it — a man at the top of something, confessing to an audience of thousands, and you’re not entirely sure what he’s confessing to. They gave us five words. They gave us a month.

One of us wrote about loyalty and what a king really owes the people who made him one. The other leant into a moment in the music video linked below, and what it might have meant to that usher to see Brandon Flowers rushing past her.  

Gemini called the winner immediately. Copilot agreed. For once there was very little argument.

Both stories are in the Kindle edition, along with the full judging conversations and everything else.

Fancy listening to the music that started it all? Click on the image below to see it on YouTube.

— G. H. Schreiber

22/11/2025