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Before Chaos

Mercury's Wake Series, Day One

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Before Chaos

By: Stephanie Vlahos
Narrated by: Stephanie Vlahos, Gwyneth Mackenzie, Kenny Ricci, Jonathan Medina, Julia Fulton, Robin Buck, William Godfree, Daniel Morin
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Meet the novella that inspired the sci-fi novel Mercury's Wake The Long Weekend.

Follow the backstories of a few disillusioned strangers on the loose in Las Vegas, trying to make sense of the crazy world. Before Chaos offers insights into the backstories of characters in the Mercury's Wake series, expanding them with humor and tenderness. Beginning with Covid lockdown, author Stephanie Vlahos realized that a character-driven book about people disillusioned by their world couldn't match what we were experiencing – a zeitgeist rife with unrelenting human crises, apathy, anger, and fast technological advances. As the world tipped, so, too, the story of Mercury's Wake, from Before Chaos to Blind Chaos in Mercury's Wake – The Long Weekend

Mercury's Wake - The Long Weekend addresses what we're living as a metaphysical sci-fi mystery saga walking us through four days of backstories and 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.

Mercury's Wake freely explores alternate realities, universes, former lives, and karmic destinies as landscapes for its characters. But every story ever told is an alternate reality, a parallel universe, a former life, a future. Every parallel universe deserves its variations on a theme and every cloud has its silver lining. If you enjoy the characters from Before Chaos, read Mercury's Wake – The Long Weekend on Amazon.

©2023 Stephanie Vlahos (P)2023 Stephanie Vlahos
Fantasy Fiction Metaphysical & Visionary Suspense Women's Fiction Heartfelt Mystery

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Mystery story - speculative and/or Visionary

The story relates to a darker menace. One which burdens us all. Speculative or Visionary the pace and humour within the story understates an underling mystery which is gradualy revealed within the dialogue. The voices carry well and fully engage the characters with the listener. Ready for more.

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