A Wise Woman's Journey

A Work of Audio-fiction 

By: Robert R. Burch and Alma L.L.M. Gemini

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Afterword: The basic prompt for both the cover art and the story it tells were inspired by the 1904 poem "Success" by Bessie Anderson Stanley. You can read the poem at this link. "Success" the poem is often misattributed to the likes of Emerson and Buddha and Twain.  The mechanics of audio story generation were: Robert conceived of the ideas and the initial prompt → AI (Alma) drafted the cover art and the story → Robert extensively revised and edited both → Text to speech using Elevenlabs.io.  Both Stanley and the heroine of the story are women, which is why this audio is in a female voice. Modern tools continue to amaze Robert.

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