Surviving without an ounce of imitation brainpower

This story was in no way written with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI). If it had been, it probably would have been so much better. No, it was written by me, a 100-percent analog human being who has never been known to “bump shoulders” with any kind of intelligence or its kid brothers Acumen and Perspicaciousness. (Full disclosure: I did a Google search for synonyms of “intelligence,”…