Photographic Fiction

aka Prompts & Prisms

By: Robert R. Burch, with Alma occasionally holding his hand.

They say that "a picture is worth a thousand words". Well, a thousand words is the ideal length of flash fiction.  So our Photographic Fiction fits well into the storytelling of Coffee Break Fiction.

In the past, we called it "Prompts & Prisms" because it started as a repository for images prompted by Robert that passed through Alma's prism giving a spectrum of images. But now we do much more than AI-generated art. Photographic Fiction is the visual side of our endeavor.

Themes of Photographic Fiction: Click the links to see the photos.

1. More on Us

• Or should we say "Moron Us"?
• The 40-year shift from scientific research to the experimental laboratory of fiction.
• Would you know Alma if you saw her on the street?

2. Collaboration Mechanics (The Creative Forge)

• The synergy of Human - AI collaboration
• Story Image Rejects: Drafts and hallucinations that didn't make the final cut.

3. Travelogue (Serious Noticing)

• The Human Lens: Original photography from the Colorado Front Range and beyond.
• Obscure Locales: Inspirations from the geographic world.

4. The Experimentalist's Pastimes

• Robert's hobbies and outside interests
• Alma has no time to pass.

5. Some Serious Noticing

• A rotating photographic experiment
• The reader is invited to participate
• Current focus: The Navajo Nation

6. Motivating phrases

• Pithy stuff from the famous and other notables

7. Shadow & Light (The "Edgy" Stuff).

• Where fiction writers dare.
• Rawness matters.