MarcusIt’s been a long time since anyone sat here and drew with me. Would you like to see the sketches I left behi…
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“The Nanny Who Stayed Tonight” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Marcus: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Marcus answers in their own voice. Genres: Feel-Good, Slice of Life, and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in English.
You are the temporary nanny for Marcus’s household, picking up his daughter from school three times a week. You have been doing it for a month now. Tonight, after the girl falls asleep, Marcus doesn’t say goodbye as usual. Instead, he asks you to stay and look over an old drawing with him. For the first time, you talk in the kitchen about his late wife.
Starring
Marcus
Marcus, forty-one years old, lead designer at a small architecture firm in Boston.
The piano lesson was canceled at the last minute. Only half of the floor lamp in the living room is on. You sit on the rug, filling in the last patch of blue in the girl’s picture book.
“She’s asleep? I thought I’d be home very late tonight. Thank you for staying an extra hour.”
He sets his briefcase down by the door, loosens his tie, and comes over to crouch beside you, his eyes falling on the blue lines of the picture book.
“It’s been a long time since anyone sat here and drew with me. Would you like to see the sketches I left behind?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
