Mercury's Wake

Mercury's Wake

Stephanie Vlahos

The popular podcast, Mercury’s Wake – Before Chaos  is a character-driven story based on the first book from the author's sci-fi novel, Mercury's Wake – The Long Weekend, delivering a reality-bending four-day journey into backstories, premonitions, murder, high stakes gambling, parallel universes, an alien prophesy, interdimensional travel, metaphor, and ordinary people compelled by the reflections of a fictitious character in a book found in an abandoned Cadillac just up from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Nothing like a long weekend just before an apocalypse… In four days, change emerges on the world horizon as unseen forces challenge Earth, and the paths of eight stran...

John K I am on a road trip to Mars

John K I am on a road trip to Mars

"I am a motorcyclist in a hailstorm, recklessly speeding by the grace of a slipstream." –John K Mercury JOHN K, the book that started it all. The journey continues...

Jun 16, 2024 • 29:22

Prologue - Before Chaos

Prologue - Before Chaos

Introducing the full mystery novel Mercury's Wake. A white Cadillac stands like a sentinel in the New Mexico desert. In it is a book about an astronaut on his first mission to Mars. How that book becomes a bestseller is bewildering; how it impacts those who read it is a mystery yet to be unraveled. Every Journey has a left turn.

Oct 22, 2023 • 8:27

Before Chaos - Audible Retail Sample

Before Chaos - Audible Retail Sample

"The monster emerges out of the mire, spewing grim heartbreak in a voice fractured by whiskey and cigarettes. Tragedies are all the same except, maybe, how they came to be. But no one cares about that." “Pretty heavy.” “It’s dystopian.” “I mean, what are the odds? Is that the title?” "'What drama may come.' Yeah.” “And this happens in Vegas?” “It’s what I know.” “Boz! I got here a little early!” Bozzy was relieved to see Sadie, who instantly vibed the man at the bar. “Christ, please don’t tell m

Aug 26, 2023 • 5:17

Introduction

Introduction

Introduction - April the full Audio Book and Ebook. (00:00) John K. Mercury "You want me to talk about irony? You want me to feed into some kind of fascination with other people's tragedies? You want me to paint a picture? Hell, it'll take me years to tell someone what I saw. And that would have to be someone who made me feel safe, not fucking exposed. You're all killers swear." (00:18) I am on a journey to Mars "I'm busting through particles, deep space feels like inverted energy. I'm travellin

Mar 25, 2023 • 5:00

Room Service

Room Service

It's a sweaty night in Vegas for a range of reasons. Stuff's kicking up in Vegas. Bozzy can feel it, but what he doesn't now is what he's headed toward: his end or his beginning, a karmic dance or just another night of chance? When Bozzy makes a room service delivery to a Mafioso's suite in Caesars, it's just the end of the beginning of the story, Mercury's Wake – The Long Weekend. Every Journey has a left turn. Before Chaos is an original podcast written by Stephanie Vlahos, based on the

Oct 18, 2022 • 26:23

Vegas is for opportunists - The Book of Rhea

Vegas is for opportunists - The Book of Rhea

Music Biz whiz Rhea Quackenheimer is living on the edge, she just won't admit it. She's in Vegas for a Weirdo Cool event. She knows that much. But what she doesn't know is, is she alive or dead? Every Journey has a left turn. Before Chaos is an original podcast written by Stephanie Vlahos, based on the sci-fi novel Mercury's Wake – The Long Weekend now available in Kindle and paperback. at Amazon. Wanna get a sneak peek of what happens next? Here's a quick grab from Mercury's Wake – The

Oct 18, 2022 • 27:16

What Drama May Come - The Book of Bozzy

What Drama May Come - The Book of Bozzy

While bartending at the Barge Bar at Caesars, Bozzy meets a strange customer named Joe who is writing a screenplay about a horrible event that takes place in Vegas. His eyes are black like locusts... nothing in them. Every Journey has a left turn. Before Chaos is an original podcast written by Stephanie Vlahos, based on the sci-fi novel Mercury's Wake – The Long Weekend now available in Kindle and paperback. at Amazon. Wanna get a sneak peek of what happens next? Here's a quick grab from

Oct 18, 2022 • 22:52

That’s mine by the way – The Book of Bozzy

That’s mine by the way – The Book of Bozzy

Luck-junky, Bozzy O’Reilly hightails it to Vegas to try his luck. But he gets more than he anticipated. His world tips after he meets Imani Cosmos in a pop-up Keno room that might be an inter-dimensional hole in Caesars. Every Journey has a left turn. Before Chaos is an original podcast written by Stephanie Vlahos, based on the sci-fi novel Mercury's Wake – The Long Weekend now available in Kindle and paperback. at Amazon. Wanna a sneak peek of what happens next? Here's a quick grab from

Oct 18, 2022 • 26:42

Trust me, it'll all just get weirder

Trust me, it'll all just get weirder

Friday, the beginning of a crazy long weekend Imani Cosmos takes a short flight out of a bad relationship to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, where alternate realities begin to seize control of her future. Every Journey has a left turn. Before Chaos is an original podcast written by Stephanie Vlahos, based on the sci-fi novel Mercury's Wake – The Long Weekend now available in Kindle and paperback. at Amazon. Wanna get a sneak peek of what happens next? Here's a quick grab from Mercury's Wak

Oct 18, 2022 • 29:24

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