Help Choose the Next Jump in OtherSpace

Long before I launched Southpoint Access, I created OtherSpace MUSH way back in 1998 — a shared online sci-fi universe full of starships, factions, alien cultures, cargo runs, danger, and player-driven stories.

Now I’ve returned to that universe with a new serial LitRPG: Mara Venn and the Ledger of Small Impossible Things.

Mara is a broke Fringe-born spacer with a battered cargo hauler called the Small Apology, a sealed crate that too many powerful people want, and a growing talent for making choices that are technically survivable.

Here’s the fun part: readers help steer the story.

It’s free to read (I'm posting installments on my Patreon page). It’s free to participate via Discord. To vote, join the OtherSpace Discord: https://discord.gg/WW7NgPGPs3.

After each installment in the dedicated Discord channel, I post a few possible choices. Readers vote on what Mara does next, and the winning choice shapes the next episode.

Come aboard. The galaxy is waiting, and Mara needs your advice.

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