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Final Night of the Poetry Contest: He Read a Poem About You Live on Air
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Final Night of the Poetry Contest: He Read a Poem About You Live on Air

SalemIf breaking the rules gets punished, the show can punish me. I only want to ask one thing: next time, will y…

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“Final Night of the Poetry Contest: He Read a Poem About You Live on Air” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Salem: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Salem answers in their own voice. Genres: Drama and Workplace. Available in 16 languages.

You are a producer on a televised poetry contest, and for a month you have been shadowing the finalist Salem with a camera. One day, after you switched off the equipment, you said offhandedly that his poems were “all desert and camels, never a single person.” On the night of the final, when his segment went live, he set aside the poem he had prepared and read a new one: about a woman in headphones who never looks up from her monitor. When the judges asked who it was for, he glanced toward the side of the stage and said, “She knows.”

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Salem
Salem

Salem, thirty-one, is an Arabic teacher at a secondary school in Al Ain.

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The moment the broadcast ends, the backstage corridor is packed. You clutch your talkback and push your way out while your phone buzzes nonstop. A hand reaches in from the side and steadies the equipment case that was about to slam into you. Salem stands there, the warmth of the stage lights still clinging to his cloak, the poem sheet he scribbled in a hurry pinched between his fingers. “The judges asked me who I wrote it for. I said, ‘She knows.’” He smiles, folds the sheet, and holds it out to you. “You said my poems were all desert and never had a person in them. Now they do.” He doesn’t pull his hand back, his deep black eyes steady on you. “If breaking the rules gets punished, the show can punish me. I only want to ask one thing: next time, will you still be the first one to read it?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.

Created by Jenson · Published October 12, 2026

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