Audio Drama Character-driven story based on the first book of Fiction from Stephanie Vlahos, Mercury’s Wake – The Long Weekend.
Popular Audio Drama Fiction Podcast, Mercury’s Wake – Before Chaos
Nothing like a long weekend. Just before an apocalypse. Pure Fiction!
With 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.
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.
Heading toward a diabolical event at the Pompeii Amphitheater, Las Vegas, Nevada, just your usual four-day weekend in Las Vegas.
Delivering a reality-bending four-day journey.
Audio Drama Part 1 – Trust me, it’ll all just get weirder
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.
The journey continues.
Audio Drama Part 2 – That’s mine by the way –
The Book of Bozzy
Luck-junky, Bozzy O’Reilly hightails it to Vegas to try his luck. 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.
Where is this heading to?
Audio Drama Part 3 – 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.
Or so it seems.
Audio Drama Part 4 – Vegas is for opportunists –
The Book of Rhea
Music Biz whiz Rhea Quackenheimeris 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?
Find out more.
Audio Drama Part 5 – 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.
“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.”
Before Chaos is an original Podcast written by Stephanie Vlahos, based on the Science Fiction novel Mercury’s Wake – The Long Weekendnow available in Kindle and paperback at Amazon.
“Trust me, it will only get weirder.”
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. Sometimes we take a detour which could be as long as a lifetime or as short as a long weekend. The questions is: where is that detour headed?
Audio in Vegas…moving onwards
…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.
Join Imani Cosmos for a 4-day weekend
Her world in pieces, Imani settles in Caesars Palace Las Vegas, navigating the minefield of probability while 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.
What next?
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, TheUnseen, and Altered Destinations or as a full novel, Mercury’s Wake – The Long Weekend. Read the episodic in any order you choose, after all, nothing is linear.
Mercury’s Wake – The Journey Continues