Maxine Kemp paused, her fingers disappearing through the fractured surface of the mirror. On the other side, she saw another woman—not a reflection—holding a single lit candle. The glowing heart frame in Maxine’s hand pulsed with an eerie light as she reached further, a silent invitation across the divide. A faint smile played on her lips; tonight's exchange would be…interesting.
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.