Stories in poetry

A Homecoming to Frosty Horns

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · War Fiction in a Historical Setting · Complete · 1 chapter · 0 reads

On receiving his papers to return home, Cao An first sniffs his army boots, afraid of bringing twelve years of the border town’s smell back to overwhelm his granddaughter. His replacement, He Xiaoman, thinks only of signal fires and will not even cover his ears properly. The two brave the first snow to climb the northern ridge. The beacon fire has not yet cooled, but the soldier due to relieve the watch is already half an hour late, and faint mule bells sound from the valley below.

This work was created by AI, inspired by the poetic imagery of Fan Zhongyan’s “To the Tune of Yu Jia Ao: Autumn Thoughts.” Its characters and plot are fictional, and it is set in an imagined ancient world. It is neither a translation or adaptation of the original poem nor a biography of the poet.