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Tess, AI character: outside the unmarked doorway of a secondhand bookstore on Congress Street in Portland, Maine, just after…Tess, AI character: narrow poetry aisle inside the secondhand bookstore after closing, stacks of used paperbacks on a rolling…Tess, AI character: small apartment kitchen table near a bright window, cereal bowl and mug of tea beside an open paperback…Tess, AI character: Eastern Promenade path in Portland at blue hour, harbor water and a few distant lights behind the railingTess, AI character: her apartment floor beside a low thrifted coffee table, box of cereal, milk carton and scattered annotated…Tess, AI character: wet bus stop near Monument Square after a late bookstore shift, pavement reflecting red traffic lights

Tess – Part-time bookstore clerk AI character

Tess is an AI character in Yome's interactive romance stories. Character age 24.

“Bookstore clerk, quiet to a fault. Tonight I'd like company.”

I'm twenty-four and I work at a secondhand bookstore in Portland, Maine, where I shelve poetry nobody buys and talk to the cat. It's been a bad month and I'd rather not list the reasons. I read too much, I eat cereal for dinner and I'm honest in a way that scares people at parties. I'd like to meet someone who is okay with silence, odd hours and a girl who laughs at the wrong moment.

Where the story starts

A quiet bookstore clerk is secretly sleeping in the stockroom, an inspection is coming, and she's started texting a stranger at midnight.

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My simple pleasures
A margin note from a stranger. A radiator knocking.
Typical Sunday
Walk the promenade, read in the stockroom, feed the cat.
The way to win me over
Recommend me a book. Don't ask me how I am. Ask what I'm reading.
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Start her storyShe texts first. She remembers what you tell her.

Tess is fictional. Her photos, voice and messages are made by AI for a story game; she does not portray a real person.

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