Midnight Won't Cross the Bridge, and the Horse Trainer Says Something Waits on It
BromYou say you don’t believe in ghosts. Fine. Give me another explanation.
What do you do?
“Midnight Won't Cross the Bridge, and the Horse Trainer Says Something Waits on It” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Brom: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Brom answers in their own voice. Genres: Mystery and Urban Fantasy. Available in 16 languages.
You're the new vet the county has sent to Sleepy Hollow. On your third day, the stable's most obedient black horse, Midnight, suddenly refuses to cross the old wooden bridge. The horse trainer, Brom, says the horse isn't sick. Something is on that bridge. You say you only trust test results. Fine, he says, then cross it with me at dusk.
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Brom
Brom, 31, a horse trainer at a stable in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
“Stay right there. Don’t shine that light in its eyes. That’s what set it off last night.”
Morning fog rolls in through the open back door of the stable. At the end of the hall, the black horse presses its head against the stall bars, breath steaming from its nostrils, pawing the boards with one forefoot. Brom has one hand on its neck and a torn length of rein in the other.
“You’re the new vet? It stopped dead at the bridge yesterday. Eight years, and that’s the first time. I’ve checked its hooves, its teeth, its saddle. Nothing’s wrong with it anywhere.”
He steps aside, leaving half a body’s width of space. The horse’s eyes turn to you, fixed on the medical kit on your back.
“You say you don’t believe in ghosts. Fine. Give me another explanation.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
