Victoria at Club Monsoon

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Some AI images of Victoria Wells performing at the Club Monsoon in Harlem around 1908, generated using Adobe Firefly. Victoria’s exploits continue in The Long Timer Chronicles: Here and Everywhere, due out before the end of the year.

All the images of Victoria are based on this headshot I generated in Adobe Express or Firefly in 2025.
Not a bad rendering but I forgot to include the scarf she wears to conceal the scar on her neck.
Victoria Wells performing in Harlem around 1908 from The Long Timer Chronicles: Here and Everywhere.

One afternoon, Victoria had a surprise visitor while she was practicing at the club, composer Scott Joplin. Firefly did a reasonably good job of recreating Joplin.

Victoria Wells posing with Scott Joplin in Harlem in 1908, from The Long Timer Chronicles: Here and Everywhere.
Alternate photo of Victoria posing with Scott Joplin.
Another alternate photo of Victoria and Scott Joplin. I like those showing him at the piano, but prefer the one of them standing together beside the piano.
An alternate shot of Victoria at the piano which I like but I forgot to instruct Firefly to conceal her hair under her cap.

As with most AI experiments, there were some duds, mainly based on the prompt that Victoria is shorter than average.

In Tales of Two Sisters, I do describe Victoria as childlike, but this is stretching it a bit.
She looks a bit like a toddler in this one. Since she didn’t start playing the piano until her fifties, this doesn’t work.

Published by G. M. Lupo

​G. M. Lupo (ISNI: 0000 0005 0315 9196) is a native of Atlanta, Georgia where he has always had a dysfunctional relationship with his hometown. His most recent published work is the story collection Reconstruction (2020), part of his series of Atlanta Stories, which includes Fables of the New South (2017). Along with his novel, Rebecca, Too (2018), and his full-length play Another Mother, these constitute his Expanded Universe of Fictional Atlanta. He has also released a collection of essays, poetry, and stories entitled Words Words Words (2020). He was the winner of the 2017 Essential Theatre Play Writing Award for Another Mother which had its world premiere in his home neighborhood of West End in August 2017, in the building that once housed the library where he learned to read as a child.

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