Came across a nice Plugin by jasondude7116 that allowed Hal to read stories or poems, basically a text file.
I went through and changed it to work properly with UH7 instead of UltraHalAssistant 6.
One has to say, "Please read now story <insert your story or poem text file name here but no txt extension)"
You can also say, "Please read now story list" and Hal will find and name all the stories you have in your story/poem folder.
Example: Please read now story a road less taken
Hal will find the story or poem (if it exists in your Story Folder). If not, Hal will advise you that it does not exist or couldn't be found.
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Make a New Folder under Ultra Hal 7 called Story.
Copy any reasonably short stories or poems into the Story folder. They all must be text files and have a .txt extension.
Copy this readastory.uhp file into your Ultra Hal 7 Folder
Reboot Hal. Go to MENU > General Options > Brain
Scroll down the right side to find Read a story in the list of Plugins and select it.
Restart Hal then you can ask Hal to read stories or poems for you or to you.
Big thanks to jasondude7116!