"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.

A Cadillac abandoned in the desert. A mysterious manuscript. Eight strangers drawn into a four-day reality-bending weekend in Las Vegas.

Premonitions. High-stakes gambling. UFOs. Parallel universes. An alien prophecy.

Ordinary people collide with extraordinary forces as the world tilts toward chaos.

This is Mercury’s Wake – Before Chaos — an indie fiction drama podcast by Stephanie Vlahos.

The journey continues…

Bozzy delivers room service to a Mafioso’s suite. What should be routine becomes a karmic dance between fate and chance. Is this the end—or just the beginning? The long weekend accelerates toward chaos…

Mercury’s Wake – Before Chaos is an indie audio drama written by Stephanie Vlahos, based on her sci-fi novel Mercury’s Wake – The Long Weekend, available now in Kindle and paperback.

Music industry maverick Rhea Quackenheimer arrives for a “Weirdo Cool” event. But as reality fractures, she must ask: is she alive, or already dead? Vegas is for opportunists—but opportunity has a price…

Mercury’s Wake – Before Chaos is an indie audio drama written by Stephanie Vlahos, based on her sci-fi novel Mercury’s Wake – The Long Weekend, available now in Kindle and paperback.

Behind the bar at Caesars, Bozzy encounters Joe—a man with eyes as black as locusts, writing a screenplay about a horrific Vegas event. Is Joe a prophet, or something far darker? The storm is coming…

Mercury’s Wake – Before Chaos is an indie audio drama written by Stephanie Vlahos, based on her sci-fi novel Mercury’s Wake – The Long Weekend, available now in Kindle and paperback.

Luck-junky Bozzy O’Reilly races to Vegas chasing fortune. But when he meets Imani Cosmos in a pop-up Keno room that may be an interdimensional rift, his luck takes a dangerous turn. Every journey has a left turn…

Mercury’s Wake – Before Chaos is an indie audio drama written by Stephanie Vlahos, based on her sci-fi novel Mercury’s Wake – The Long Weekend, available now in Kindle and paperback.

Eight strangers cross paths in Las Vegas. It begins with a Cadillac, a mysterious book, and a road trip to Mars. The journey begins…

Mercury’s Wake – Before Chaos is an indie audio drama written by Stephanie Vlahos, based on her sci-fi novel Mercury’s Wake – The Long Weekend, available now in Kindle and paperback.