The ITSPmagazine Podcast

The Other Side of Halloween | A Creepy AI Story for Halloween Night

The ITSPmagazine Podcast

Show Notes

An original Halloween story by Marco Ciappelli, read by TAPE3. Nora is an AI who wears a human face. Maya is a girl who takes the same selfie thirty times. On Halloween night, their two worlds meet, and nobody can tell anymore who is under the mask.

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