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CooLWJ Library Original fiction inspired by poetry

Stories in poetry

Follow a line of poetry into a story.

A light by the ferry, an unsent letter, and moonlight on ordinary lives.
Take the time for a cup of tea and open a story of everyday life.

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THE COLLECTION

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A Note Left Beneath the Pines

A Mountain Journey Mystery in an Imagined Ancient WorldComplete

A Note Left Beneath the Pines

Du San knows the tracks of missing cattle and horses, yet after searching a seventh mountain path he still has not found Master Ye. The Wen family wants the recluse to give the inaugural lecture at their new academy. If Du San succeeds, all future searches for missing people from six trading depots will be his. The young man beneath the pine says only that his master is gathering herbs, while each neighbor points in a different direction. At last, a faint trail emerges in the mist, but the shoulder-carried sedan has also arrived at the foot of the mountain, long ankle-binding straps draped beside it.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 1 chapter

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Two Sprigs of Dogwood

A Travel Adventure in an Ancient SettingComplete

Two Sprigs of Dogwood

Pei Ji has traveled two hundred li to compete for the Double Ninth brocade banner, but his elder brother, who usually tends his safety rope, lies ill in the previous town. The festival organizer values his reputation as a man who roams the world alone. An unfamiliar rope handler offers to help, yet Pei Ji dares not entrust his life to him. The ten-tael prize would let his brother rest for an entire season. He accepts the dogwood an old woman offers, still unsure to whom he should give the extra sprig.

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Farewell to the Qin beneath Bamboo and Moon

The Martial World in a Historical SettingComplete

Farewell to the Qin beneath Bamboo and Moon

When Zhuo Qing returns to the bamboo lodge to give back a qin, her master is sharpening her sword. She wants to escort goods for a northbound caravan; he has already chosen a secure job for her guarding a city household, even preparing a brazier for winter. She can carry ten years of training beyond the bamboo grove, yet still wants a letter of recommendation from her master so strangers will trust her a little more. As moonlight moves across the qin strings, she asks for a match.

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · 1 chapter

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Flower Tidings at the West Window

Romance in an Ancient SettingComplete

Flower Tidings at the West Window

Luo Qu buys his first cargo boat, measures out sleeping places for two in the cabin, and comes to fetch his wife to travel with him to Eastern Wu. But Cheng Bi brings eighteen peony plants, their roots still packed in earth: they must be planted today, and there is no room for them in the hold full of salt. Both remember the future they discussed before marrying, yet they never made clear which would be their home this year: the small house with a west-facing window, or the cargo boat outside its door.

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Fellow Travelers Among the Clouds

Adventure in an Imagined Ancient WorldComplete

Fellow Travelers Among the Clouds

Song Yang has a new robe made for his ascent of Mount Tai and reads the mountain guide seventeen times, only to begin the climb with a lie: he has been here before. A stranger immediately lowers his short staff and says he will follow him, making it all the harder to betray his uncertainty. Afternoon sunlight still falls on the mountain’s southern side, but clouds already fill its far side. The guide shows only one pine with a spreading crown, yet pines stand beside both paths ahead, and his companion tests every slightly hollow-sounding stone step with particular care.

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Parting Ways Amid Willow Green

Friendship and Social Life in an Ancient SettingComplete

Parting Ways Amid Willow Green

Duan Ye leaves westward with the diplomatic delegation tomorrow morning, but Du Jiming pushes back the farewell wine and first demands last month’s shop rent. The three hundred wedding cards they jointly agreed to make are still unfinished, their accounts show debts, and a new helper stands beside the table, unwilling to work an unpaid trial. In the rainy night, the drying shed leaks again, and wet sheets sag one after another. Everything they thought could be settled over a cup of wine must be discussed anew before dawn.

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Frost Passes over Cold Mountain

Supernatural Romance in a Historical SettingComplete

Frost Passes over Cold Mountain

Qin Ye is hurrying down Cold Mountain when a woman in white appears at the back of his cart. A thin frost lies by her feet, but no tracks show where she came from. If he delivers the loom shuttles to the dyehouse before sunset, he will be allowed to make long journeys on his own. The woman, however, wants to go higher, to the maple woods blazing red. Just then, the cart’s wedge comes loose. At the fork, one road leads downhill to the delivery, the other uphill to the maples. By the time the cart is repaired, there will be still less daylight left for either direction.

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A Floating Isle upon the Vast Sea

Strange Tales at Sea in a Historical SettingComplete

A Floating Isle upon the Vast Sea

On his first voyage, Meng Zhao plants a flag on a new island and names it Chang’an Islet, hoping to trade a harbor chart for a share in a ship. But Wen Pu, the pilot traveling with him, refuses to rush into surveying the land: the island has no spring, and the origins of its vegetation seem wrong. After nightfall, the two reefs at the bay’s entrance have shifted behind them. The sampan where they are spending the night is still secured by two ropes, and the knots he tied himself that day are slowly pulling taut.

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The Southern Mountain Beyond the Fence

Comedy in an Ancient SettingComplete

The Southern Mountain Beyond the Fence

Three days of peace and quiet, priced at ten taels. A dispirited bookkeeper, Qiao Wang, rents a house at the foot of the Southern Mountain, sends away the rooster, pays to stop the mill, and adds screens and boards up the fence, hoping the visiting Mr. Ge will leave an inscription worth carrying back to the city. No sooner has his guest settled into his seat than he asks where the Southern Mountain is; the half of the mountain once visible through the window has long since been hidden by the new fence boards, while the broker is still recruiting the next party of scholarly visitors for him.

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Knocking beneath the Apricot Tree

Social Life in an Ancient SettingComplete

Knocking beneath the Apricot Tree

On his third day in the village, Cheng Pu searches everywhere for the broken pot, growing more afraid with every passing moment that its owner has hired another craftsman. Two days earlier, he lost his way and arrived in Shiwan Village, where a bowl of chicken from Sister-in-law Mo persuaded him to sit down and left him eager to repay her kindness with his craft. The spring land-god festival is almost here, but new cracks keep appearing beside the patch; he has staked even his father’s reputation on the job, yet the hardest thing to say is precisely what he realized long ago.

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Green Mountains Beyond the Painting

Social Life in an Ancient SettingComplete

Green Mountains Beyond the Painting

Shao Qing is painting a birthday portrait of Liao Sanniang, but on the first day she finishes only half an ear. The son wants fullness and vigor; the daughter wants to preserve the wrinkles of hardship. The old woman moves her chair seven times and still says the position is wrong. The eight-tael fee will cover her paint debts, and the city’s spring painting exhibition is about to stop accepting submissions. Yet the old woman invites her out to sit awhile at the tea shelter on the western slope.

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A Place at the Table in Jiangnan

Social Life in an Ancient SettingComplete

A Place at the Table in Jiangnan

Shen Ji needs only the twenty taels from selling her ancestral house to open a flatbread shop of her own on the north bank. Only after crossing the river does she discover that the mother and daughter living there are rushing to weave boat mats for spring. Their remaining six months of tenancy amount to far more than six months’ rent. The buyer demands the house be empty in two days, and the deposit on her north-bank shop is nearing its deadline. Beneath the apricot tree, helping gather wet grass, she finds herself unable for the first time to reckon how many days must be surrendered to move a workshop.

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