Mercury's Wake

By: Stephanie Vlahos
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  • 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 strangers merge onto a supernatural freeway headed toward a diabolical event at the Pompeii Amphitheater, Las Vegas, Nevada, just your usual four-day weekend in Las Vegas.

    “It’s strange to sit here with a glass of wine, watching a storm of locusts mindlessly smear their guts on the living room window. It’s gruesome and mesmerizing. Funny how life goes on despite horrifying signs.”
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Episodes
  • Room Service

    Room Service
    Oct 18 2022

    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 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 Long Weekend:

    The paths of eight strangers cross on a 4-day reality-bending weekend in Las Vegas that is headed toward a diabolical event at the Pompeii Amphitheater, and it all begins with a Cadillac and a book entitled, JOHN K – I'm on a Road Trip to Mars.

    The Journey Continues
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    26 mins
  • Vegas is for opportunists - The Book of Rhea

    Vegas is for opportunists - The Book of Rhea
    Oct 18 2022

    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 Long Weekend:

    The paths of eight strangers cross on a 4-day reality-bending weekend in Las Vegas that is headed toward a diabolical event at the Pompeii Amphitheater, and it all begins with a Cadillac and a book entitled, JOHN K – I'm on a Road Trip to Mars.

    The Journey Continues
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    27 mins
  • What Drama May Come - The Book of Bozzy

    What Drama May Come - The Book of Bozzy
    Oct 18 2022

    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 Mercury's Wake – The Long Weekend:

    The paths of eight strangers cross on a 4-day reality-bending weekend in Las Vegas that is headed toward a diabolical event at the Pompeii Amphitheater, and it all begins with a Cadillac and a book entitled, JOHN K – I'm on a Road Trip to Mars.

    The Journey Continues

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    23 mins

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I listened to this elsewhere but think it’s worth hailing on here as more people look on here. It’s brilliant and I can’t wait to hear more after the gripping ending that I’m hoping will actually be an exciting beginning. I’m hooked on John K!

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Fiction Story that enters the realm of mystery

Love it. The story the characters the narrative that brings us in. Like an audio soap that keeps you engaged... and wanting more. It can be hard to find good original fiction on podcast but guess what? This it.

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