Stories in poetry

A Door Left Open on a Snowy Night

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · A Historical-Style Novel of Everyday Life · Complete · 36 chapters · 18 reads

On the night before A-Sui moves to town, a young traveler seeking shelter from the snow arrives at a brushwood gate that will not quite close. Needlework and wood shavings beneath an oil lamp draw out the unspoken concerns of mother and son. Xu Shen hopes his craft will earn him stability, but a commission for a pharmacy door leaves his plane suspended between the patterns he has painstakingly carved and a door that ought to stand securely.

This original novel was written with AI assistance, expanding upon Liu Changqing’s Seeking Shelter at the Master’s House on Mount Furong in the Snow and this site’s original short story A Door Left Open on a Snowy Night. Its characters, county town, routes, and plot are fictional, set in an imagined world with a Tang-era atmosphere. It is neither a translation of the poem nor a biography of the poet.