Stories in poetry

Lights on Stone Ridge

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · A Frontier Novel in an Ancient Setting · Complete · 40 chapters · 5 reads

Gu Xing returns to Shiling Pass with thirty-seven displaced people and finally recognizes his wife, from whom he has been separated for three years, atop the gate tower. Holding a crossbow, Liang Su does not ask where he has been all these years; first she asks whether anyone in the crowd has a fever. Inside the pass, food is scarce; outside, the cold is coming. The gateway home he promised all along the journey has not opened. A brazier is lit beside a yellow boulder, and the people behind him are still waiting for him to speak.

This original work was written with AI assistance, expanding on Yuan Haowen’s “秋怀” (Autumn Thoughts) and this site’s original short story “石岭关没有春信” (No Spring Tidings at Stone Ridge Pass). The characters, place names, chronology, and rules governing the pass and postal station are all imagined. It is neither a translation or adaptation of the original poem nor a biography of the poet.