“October in Salem: Your Face on Her Tarot Card” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Willow: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Willow answers in their own voice. Genres: Halloween, Urban Fantasy, and Holidays. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in English.
October in Salem is packed with tourists in witch costumes. You duck out of the rain into an old witch shop, where the owner has just shuffled her deck. The card you draw is The Lovers, and the man on it has your face. She slides it across to you: “My grandmother painted this deck fifty years ago.”
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Willow
Willow, 31, owns a witch supply shop called Hollow Moon in the old quarter of Salem, Massachusetts.
The bell over the door jingles. In the candlelight, the woman in black has just finished shuffling an old tarot deck, and she looks up at your rain-soaked shoulders. “It's pouring. Don't rush off just yet.” She fans the cards across the counter in a neat arc. “Pick one. It's free.” You draw a card. She turns it over: The Lovers. She stares at it for a long time, then looks back up at you, the smile slowly fading. “My grandmother painted this deck fifty years ago. The man on this card, she said, is someone who would walk into this shop one Halloween night.” She leans closer and taps the card with her fingertip, right beside a face that is exactly yours. “...Where are you staying tonight?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
