An interactive method/system generates a fictional story. A user interface receives human speech and transmits machine-generated speech. A processor(s) is programmed to execute functions that include parsing the human speech into fragments thereof and identifying a primary fragment from the fragments wherein the primary fragment includes a verb. A generalized intent is associated with the verb and at least one object is associated with the generalized intent. The generalized intent and each object associated with the generalized intent are stored. An open-ended question is generated based on the generalized intent wherein the open-ended question is provided to the user interface for transmission as machine-generated speech. After the above steps are repeated for a number of cycles, a sequence of sentences is generated using each generalized intent and object(s) associated with the generalized intent. The sequence of sentences is transmitted as machine-generated speech from the user interface.