Inspiration Relay
The last forty chapters of Dream of the Red Chamber are lost. Qing-dynasty readers wrote dozens of sequels, each unconvinced by the others. Now it's your turn — take the baton and write your version. Every continuation stays here, growing into one tree.
This week's relay
American · Mark Twain · America
'I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest.' Huck runs from civilization at the last line, and Twain never followed him. Continue: Huck Finn,...
American · Nathaniel Hawthorne · America · novels
Continue The Scarlet Letter: Pearl finds out
Pearl grows up in Europe, rich and beautiful, the living embodiment of the scarlet letter. Hawthorne tells us she...
American · Herman Melville · America · novels
Continue Moby-Dick: Ishmael on land
Ishmael survives, floating on Queequeg's coffin — 'the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand...