Opal Lara paused, the candlelight reflecting off the cake’s dark frosting. The guests were late, unusually so. She glanced at the clock—or where it should be. It was gone. Just another empty space on the wall, like the one beside the mirror. A chill snaked up her spine despite the warmth of the room. The pumpkins seemed to grin wider than before, and a spiderweb shimmered with an unnatural light. She hoped they hadn't forgotten. Or worse... that something had stopped them from arriving. The skull on the cake felt heavier now, its empty sockets staring back at her. A single glass of champagne sat untouched beside the table setting.
using a specialized prompt sent to Qwen 3-8B to take the theme and instructions, a large number of random locations, then create a prompt with the character, and since i'm using QIE2509, i put a small pre-fix to the prompt, and this is the result:
use the real woman in image 1, this is a photograph ...
Workflow
ComfyUI used to gen the source, then ComfyUI again to fix anything using Flux Krea Nunchaku for any inpaints, then SDXL w/ ControlNet direct 4k upscale(meaning no tiling), and finally GIMP to do any pre or post-fixes, as well as final color correction and enhancing, and signaturing. and newly added is using Gemma-3-12B in LM Studio to generate short stories about the images to give a touch of curiosity to them.