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Sunday, November 30, 2025

Midnight is for Ghost Stories

Right?

An Afterimage
I forgot to ask the B**** and Moan Society's YouTube Crama Division if I could use my own likeness in my creation.  Oops.
As I've said, I love to try to create the world of fiction novels visually.  When I do, I am trying to see what the author might have seen in their mind when they wrote their stories.  Very true of Anne Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches series, yes.  There is another novel, though, one I first read many years ago after buying it as an eBook, that grabbed onto me and hasn't let go yet.  What is equally impressive is that it was self-published.  

Since it was busted into recently and my private annotations were tampered with... 

I've decided to talk about the novel as much or as little as I bleepin' well please.  Because that is what is worth talking about to any extent.  And as the world of digital graphics evolved, I thought it might be fun to see how the written descriptions would be interpreted.  So, I made images on NightCafe, including renders, some of which I used for my commentary on the novel.

Yes, I am allowed to provide commentary on published works, God bless America.  No, I don't monetize it.  

The page of commentary on the novel can be found here.  I've provided a PSA on the page, as well.

Now, then.  Here is one image I managed to generate while futzing around--in case you feel compelled to tell my mother on me...