The Missing Brother's Letter Is Postmarked Tomorrow
BernadetteFirst things first: the postmark you saw isn't a misprint.
What do you do?
“The Missing Brother's Letter Is Postmarked Tomorrow” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Bernadette: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Bernadette answers in their own voice. Genres: Fantasy and Mystery. Available in 16 languages.
Your brother has been missing for three years, and his last letter reached the post office in São José with a stamp dated tomorrow. Postmistress Bernadette opens the back-room door, and a cloud of yellow butterflies flutters out of the piles of envelopes: “The date on that stamp isn't a misprint.”
Starring
Bernadette
Bernadette, forty-five, is the postmistress of São José, a small inland town in Minas Gerais, and its only mail carrier.
“Don't shut the door! The butterflies need to get out, let them out!”
She flicks the chain of her reading glasses over her shoulder, pins a stack of letters with one hand, and pushes the wooden back-room door open with the other. A cloud of golden wings pours through the gap, circles your head once, and settles on the register on the counter.
“You must be the sender's little brother? I'd know your brother's handwriting from across the street. Come in, the letter's inside.”
She pulls the chain from around her neck and studies you as she wipes her lenses.
“First things first: the postmark you saw isn't a misprint.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
