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We have some more fun with Amy and Jason, and Mom has some fun of her own! Enjoy!

We have a new story posted today. It’s a fun story with no redeeming social value, just entertainment.: “Photo Finish - Boy meets girl, and things get very steamy. It’s a fun romp, with lots of past history for both, and lots of illustrations.” I’ll be posting chapters every few days. Enjoy!

This is my first new story in quite a while, and I have a special contributor on it. Svtin had worked with me on Wedding, offering AI generated illustrations for scenes in the story. That was something totally new to me, and despite a few negative responses (“,,,while I've enjoyed your work in the past, your choice to use generative AI forces me to wish you well and stop reading your works...”) was generally well accepted. Then svtin offered to continue working with me and I mentioned a story I had just finished days before.

Thus Photo Finish was born. While we worked on the pics for Wedding, the problem was that it was difficult to get the pictures to mesh completely. It was tricky to get the outfits and scenes to match what had already been written. With this new story, if the AI couldn’t come up with a pic of a skintight miniskirt, but made a flirty miniskirt, I could rewrite the scene quickly to accommodate the different outfit.

Anyway, I’ll be posting chapters on Tuesdays and Fridays. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks!

Some interesting comments on adding illustrations to Wedding.

“Story was great - illustrations out of this world.”

An interesting exchange was: “You've done well. Too bad AI images look so artificial ;-)” To which I responded: “It is what it is. I can't even do stick figures. The tech is getting better and more realistic, so give it a few more years…A lot of that is cost related. The free systems are a lot less capable than the expensive corporate programs used by networks and ad agencies. They can be extremely lifelike.”

It’s mostly been very positive, but I did get a negative comment: “Just a quick note to mention that, while I've enjoyed your work in the past, your choice to use generative AI forces me to wish you well and stop reading your works.”

For right or wrong, the future is here. Costs for AI imagery are dropping even as capabilities are increasing. We will be seeing more illustrations, not fewer.

How do you feel?

I am happy to inform everybody that Wedding has been revised with illustrations on all six chapters. I also updated the codes to reflect this. I really want to thank svtin for his work. It has been fantastic, and I can't thank him enough! I am not sure yet whether I will update the ZBS book.