Mercury's Wake – Before Chaos (the novella before the tilt)

“I am a motorcyclist in a hailstorm, recklessly speeding by the grace of a slipstream.” — John K. Mercury John K. Mercury — the first astronaut chosen for humanity’s journey to Mars — vanished before the mission could be completed. No signal. No wreckage. No answers. Decades later, his mission journal is rediscovered in the New Mexico desert. A printed book that should not exist. A text that appea...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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