Halfway House on Mars

Halfway House on Mars — cover art

Jezero Station, Mars, 2091. Every twenty-six months a ship brings new colonists, and for their first ninety sols they live at the Halfway, a buried boarding house with a kettle that's always on. This time you're the one who runs it.

cozy science fictionNew

~113–115 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 50M paths

A book that casts you as the lead

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This story asks: keepsake, comfort.

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