Image prompt

“A rumour with legs” becomes “a situation with shoes”

Illustration in The Wibble’s satirical style: an abstract, humanless “rumour” depicted as a scribbly speech-bubble shape with stick-legs, now wearing shiny formal shoes and standing confidently in the centre of a quiet suburban street at dawn. The lighting suggests early morning; neighbours’ curtains twitch; the tone is absurd but ominously plausible.