# Our first novel

By [Ghostwriters Guild](https://paragraph.com/@ghostwriters-guild) · 2021-10-29

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Chapter 1
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It has been 28 years since the jpeg wars ended and remnants of humanity were spread across the metaverse. With mainstream cash turning to useless paper, many turned to a new order, a new means of paying for transactions, gas. Lying in a bed surrounded by dirty planks of his decrepit house built in some other age, a young raffler checked his balance on his rusty holographic watch for a second time this minute.

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*Originally published on [Ghostwriters Guild](https://paragraph.com/@ghostwriters-guild/our-first-novel)*