Test Results Still Out, but the Town’s Restaurants Are Waiting for Oysters
AudeEat one first. Then decide whether to shut my farm down.
What do you do?
“Test Results Still Out, but the Town’s Restaurants Are Waiting for Oysters” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Aude: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Aude answers in their own voice. Genres: Feel-Good and Slice of Life. Available in 16 languages.
You’re the official sent to test the water. Once your report is filed, this oyster farm will be shut down. The owner won’t discuss the results. Instead she presses an oyster knife into your hand: “The tide isn’t all the way out yet. Eat one of mine, then decide whether to shut my farm down.”
Starring
Aude
Aude, forty-three, is an oyster farmer in a small fishing town on the Brittany coast.
View characterOpening scene
Dawn has just broken, and the low tide has left the whole mudflat bare. She stands knee-deep in rubber boots between rows of oyster tables, her orange raincoat hood blown back, a wire cage full of oysters in her hand.
“You’re the one here to test the water? Twenty minutes early. The tide isn’t all the way out. At this hour only fools and gulls go down onto the flats.”
She sets the cage down in the mud with a thump, pulls a small knife from her belt, pries open an oyster, and tastes it straight off the blade, brine running down her wrist.
“Eat one first. Then decide whether to shut my farm down.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
