Breaking Fiction™
L.T. HanlonThis carbon-silicon collaboration creates flash fiction and illustrations inspired by current events, trends, news, popular culture, and more. Please read the About page.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 111 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 4 months ago |
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The quiet appeal of day drinking on YouTube
I spend more time on YouTube than I care to admit. Most of it slides right off me. Thumbnails shout. Hosts sell. Algorithms nudge and nag. Then I stumble into the videos of Jacob Jones, and I stop clicking away.
Jones sits on a park bench...
Elmer Bernstein’s curtain-call
Before the Red Sea parts or Charlton Heston raises his staff, “The Ten Commandments” opens with a mystery: a soaring Elmer Bernstein overture that sounds like it belongs to another movie. No Egyptian marches, no thundering “Moses theme.” Ju...
Antisemitism made me buy a Scofield Bible
I already owned an old Scofield Reference Bible. It sat on my shelf, more a curiosity than a tool I used every day. Scofield’s notes have been around for more than a century, shaping generations of American evangelicals. Agree with him or n...
Reverse prompting with ChatGPT-5
Authors commonly modify what they’ve written to create image-generation prompts. I’ve been trying the reverse lately: Uploading a storyboard-style image to ChatGPT-5 as a prompt for my bot colleague to create fiction.
Here’s my prompt for...
From still frame to singing cowboy
About a year ago, I created this image in Midjourney using a prompt I fine-tuned in ChatGPT. It was part of Breaking Fiction’s National Western Stock Show story arc. Earlier today, I pulled it back off the shelf and dropped it into Veo 3. A...
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I’m a Chicago-based writer and photographer. Before moving to the Windy City, I worked at newspapers in Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming.
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