Author Stephanie Vlahos has written and published several Books. These are works of Visionary Fiction.
Mercury’s Wake journeys into the uncharted mysteries of life – of unlikely friendship, love, alternate reality, karmic relationships, parallel universes and other parts unknown and unseen.
Visionary Fiction Purchase printed and e-book formats.
Mercury’s Wake can be purchased as an episodic series: Blind Chaos, Left Turn, The Unseen, and Altered Destinations or as a full novel, Mercury’s Wake – The Long Weekend. Read the episodic in any order you choose. Nothing is linear. Read John K – Am I Alone?
Books of Visionary Fiction by Author Stephanie Vlahos
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John K – Am I Alone?
By author Stephanie Vlahos
“Am I at the center of the universe or the center of my universe?”
JOHN K – Am I Alone? The astronaut who lit a fire under the novel Mercury’s Wake – The Long Weekend.
John K’s story takes readers on a journey beyond ordinary reality and is accompanied by whimsical illustrations inviting curiosity, trust in the cosmic dance, and find humor in life’s mysteries.
Enjoy the ride. Pure Visionary Fiction.
“Naturally, the COVID pandemic has influenced the narrative; with our lives reduced to digital online profiles in lockdown, and our homes becoming sanctuaries we hide in, there’s been a shift from the real-life community ties to isolated hermit-hood. A thought-provoking, timely piece.
— AJ Clay, Lothian Life
“…bleak and blackly comic, John K is a piece which tackles loneliness, emptiness, and existence, this is ultimately a book which celebrates connection and community.”
— Louise Penn, Loure Reviews
Blind Chaos – Friday
By author Stephanie Vlahos
“Trust me, it will only get weirder.”
Friday, the beginning of a long weekend. Her world in pieces, Imani Cosmos settles into new digs in Caesars Palace Las Vegas as she navigates the minefield of probability, meeting Bozzy, a luck junky on a karmic roll and Rhea, an attorney who is possibly suicidal and haunting herself.
As the chain of characters grows, it generates a unique plot of tangled friendships, a series of mysteries leading to a mass tragedy, and mind-bending events, seen and unseen.
It feels like The End even to Minority World people hellbent on having fun, and it all began with a book in an abandoned Cadillac in the New Mexico desert.
Left Turn – Saturday
By author Stephanie Vlahos
Saturday. After a crazy night of gale-force winds beating away millions of locusts and beating up Las Vegas, the plot thickens.
As they entangle further the characters are challenging the odds, gambling more than money.
Numbed by locust attacks and other traumas, Imani holes up in her hotel room. She cannot escape what’s ahead.
The seven strangers explore Vegas. They visit; The Palace Court; the Mob Museum; Fremont Street; and, Dragon Ridge.
They take a left turn into an altered reality.
Only Joe sees what’s ahead. Or does he?
The Unseen – Sunday
By author Stephanie Vlahos
“Can I get in?”
“We’re only letting people out.”
“But, I represent Weirdo Cool.”
“You could represent God, and I wouldn’t let you in.”
Sunday. Showtime. In the wee hours of the morning, Vegas welcomes an annular solar eclipse with a bonus, a UFO. And as if that weren’t enough, there are wildfires encroaching on Vegas out of the Mojave Desert. Under the sooty and blood red sky, Imani encounters an Indigenous shaman who identifies something in her.
The unexpected encounter leads Imani to consider a mystery unfolding in her dreams. Rhea fears she’s haunting herself, and Bozzy receives dire news about a friend.
The Fans line up for Weirdo Cool’s highly-anticipated last show at the Pompeii. An event that will challenge the audience, if not the world, with the question: are we in control, or are we being controlled?
Altered Destinations – Monday
By author Stephanie Vlahos
“You regret it, don’t you? You regret helping me when you’ve seen what I am.”
“I see nothing. Only you see what you are. Tell me, do you know what I am?”
“I got my suspicions.”
“Then you are a great man, indeed.”
Monday is the last day of a very long weekend. Or the beginning of the week? Everyone is leaving town. Visionary Fiction at its best.
The police remain on the sniff for the missing perpetrator of the baffling Pompeii tragedy, eight strangers follow their random destinies. Imani goes on a road trip with Huda, chasing a past life memory driven by the Blue Star Katsina.
Johnny picks up a mysterious hitchhiker. This all feels like the last day on Earth.
However the journey always continues.
Mercury’s Wake – The Long Weekend – Visionary Fiction
By author Stephanie Vlahos
Mercury’s Wake journeys into the uncharted mysteries of life – of unlikely friendship, love, alternate reality, karmic relationships, parallel universes and other parts unknown and unseen. It can be purchased as its original episodic series: Blind Chaos, Left Turn, The Unseen, and Altered Destinations or as a full novel, Mercury’s Wake – The Long Weekend.
Nothing is linear. You can read the episodic in any order you choose. That is Visionary Fiction at play.
We’re all on a journey. We glimpse the road signs, meet our guides, other travelers, make choices along the way as we chart the paths we walk. You can take a detour: that could be for as long as a lifetime, or as short as a long weekend. The questions is: where is that detour headed?
Vegas…
…a retreat, an escape, a smoke and mirrors destination offering gambling and probability, entertainment and magic, people from everywhere armed with backstories and expectations, or places where a visitor can experience the other side of Sin City like the Valley of Fire, Dragon Ridge, the Mojave desert, the great Hoover Dam, and maybe, just maybe, slip in between the fabric of reality.
Will you join Imani Cosmos for a 4-day weekend? With her world in pieces Imani settles in Caesars Palace Las Vegas. She navigates the minefield of probability. Bumping into seven strangers headed toward a mind-boggling tragedy and mind-bending experiences.
Their guide? The mysterious book JOHN K, discovered in an abandoned Cadillac just up from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.