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
Greco-Roman · Sophocles · ancient Greece
Antigone is dead in the tomb, Haemon dead beside her, and Creon left alone with his edicts. Sophocles ends with the chorus's cold moral. But Thebes still...
Greco-Roman · Virgil · Rome (unfinished) · epic
Continue the Aeneid: the ending Virgil didn't write
Virgil died before finishing the Aeneid — his own instructions were to burn it. Augustus saved it, unfinished. The...
Greco-Roman · Homer, Iliad · ancient Greece · epic
Continue the Iliad: inside the horse
Troy has fallen, Achilles is dead — shot in the heel, the only vulnerable place on an almost-god. The Iliad ends...
Greco-Roman · Euripides · ancient Greece · plays
Continue Medea: after the flight
Medea murders her children and flies away in the sun god's chariot — Euripides lets the monster escape. No...
Greco-Roman · Homer · ancient Greece · epic
Continue the Odyssey: the voyage Homer didn't sing
Odysseus is home. Penelope is his, Ithaca is his — and he is restless. Homer ends the Odyssey with peace, but...