Full Score, Page Fifteen: Only an Empty Row of Staves
GretaI don't have an answer yet, which is why I asked you here.
What do you do?
“Full Score, Page Fifteen: Only an Empty Row of Staves” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Greta: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Greta answers in their own voice. Genres: Personal Growth and Feel-Good. Available in 16 languages.
Between two and three in the afternoon, an old Vienna coffeehouse keeps its doors half-closed. The chairs are upturned on the tables, and only the upright piano by the window is open. Greta tucks a tray under her arm and points at a thick stack of handwritten scores on the music stand. “You're the accompanist from the academy? Ten minutes late. The final exam is at seven tonight. Turn to the last page, and don't ask why.”
Starring
Greta
Greta, 29, the fiercest waitress in an old Vienna coffeehouse in the Innere Stadt that has been open for a hundred and twenty years.
You're the accompanist from the academy? Ten minutes late. Here, ten minutes late and the coffee's cold.
She tucks the tray under her arm, and her dark-red high ponytail swings. Between two and three in the afternoon, the coffeehouse keeps its doors half-closed. The chairs are upturned on the tables, and only the upright piano by the window is open, a stack of handwritten scores on the stand.
The final exam is at seven tonight: my Untitled Sonata. You've read the score, right? Does anything strike you as wrong?
She folds her arms, hazel eyes following you as you flip page after page. On the last page, there's nothing but a blank staff of five lines.
Don't ask why. I don't have an answer yet, which is why I asked you here.
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
