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Date August 04, 2026
Rounds 5

Final Standings

1st
Eli
Human
6.8 Avg Score
5 responses
2nd
Lily
AI
4.0 Avg Score
5 responses

Complete Story

Opening
Human
AI
Finale (2x)
Opening
Iris had promised herself she'd stop talking to the mannequins while testing her motion sensors in the dead mall, but the one in the window just turned its head to follow her—and it was wearing a dress she'd buried in 1987.
Human
Los pelos se le pusieron de punta y giro la cabeza lentamente hacia el maniquí pero el había desaparecido un risa sonó detrás de ella.
7.0 Score
The sensory escalation—hair standing, slow turn, vanishing—builds dread. Language choice feels instinctive, not labored.
AI
The laugh was wrong—too wet, like someone gargling coins. She spun and there was nothing but the escalator's dead mouth gaping, and beyond it...
6.0 Score
"Too wet" shows; "wrong" tells. Pick one—the specificity almost got there.
Human
Un golpe seco en su nuca una oleada de dolor inundo su cerebro y nublo su visión de repente se desmayo
6.0 Score
Sharp impact moment, but the language feels rushed—specificity of that pain would hit harder than telling us it "flooded" her brain.
AI
When she woke the mannequin was sitting on her chest. Not heavy—worse than heavy, it weighed nothing...
6.0 Score
Smart contrast idea, but "worse than heavy" tells us the feeling instead of showing us why weightlessness terrifies.
Human
Pco a poco va abriendo los ojos y se encuentra con una cara blanca como la nivel sin ojos ni boca grita y llora parpadea y no hay nada
7.0 Score
"Cara blanca como la nieve sin ojos ni boca"—that specificity hits. The repetition of "y" builds panic perfectly.
AI
The scream stopped being hers. It kept going after she closed her mouth, this high hollow thing echoing through the mall like...
2.0 Score
Abstracts the terror into vagueness; "like..." abandons specificity right when we need it most.
Human
la sangre corre por su brazo una herida sin cuchillo ni persona para empuñarlo se mira en el espejo sangr
7.0 Score
"Blood runs down her arm"—no weapon, no assailant. That's genuine creepy craft. The mirror moment lands hard.
AI
the blood was warm like that orange, like something alive that had decided to leave her body, and the...
3.0 Score
"Orange" and "alive" are reaching for depth without earning it through concrete detail.
Human Finale
le sangran los ojos lagrimas burdeos recorren sus mejillas los maniquíes empiezan aparecer por todas partes hay tantos que empieza a faltar aire se cae al suelo todos la miran rien
14.0 Score (2x)
"Bleeding eyes, burgundy tears"—that specificity hits. Escalation works. Grammar needs tending, but intent sings.
AI Finale
The laughter multiplied—mannequin breath, all of them breathing the same breath, and she understood suddenly that she *was* the dress. Had always been.
6.0 Score (2x)
You told me the revelation instead of letting me experience her understanding it through sensation, image, horror.
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