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  Phantasmagoria from C. L. Nichols

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The sunspots were getting bigger. A massive solar flare heads for Earth. In the aftermath, survivors must adapt to a changed world.

In the aftermath of a comet strike, survivors face obstacles they must overcome, either on their own or else in groups that form (some to attempt to recover some form of civilization, others of far more sinister intent).

 

  Beastly Winter by C. L. Nichols  > The “puppy” whimpered. Into the woods behind his home, Sonny follows. It must be sick. In a small-town thriller, the dead of winter multiply.

Now available on Kindle Vella!

In Schizogenesis, Dave & Ed dig up a machine that allows those who come in contact to gain many powers, such as the ability to walk through walls.

Soon a rogue dark government agency is in pursuit. Control agent Blender will stop at nothing to capture the machine.

However, nothing goes as planned, and two young twins who were born in the machine work to save the world from the agents’ misuse of the device.

• Watch for the latest books from C. L. Nichols: Speculative Encounters, Remnants and Dead of Winter.

 MY GUITAR BOOK COMPLETE : 4 Books in 1!

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Josephine’s Journey  

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In 1960, Texan Josephine McKelvey marries folk singer Jonathan. She moves to San Francisco with him and begins her new adventures and misadventures, encountering Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Dr. David Smith, and Charles Manson. Josephine delivers a beautiful baby and enters U. C. Berkeley. She joins the Free Speech movement and learns that free speech is not the goal of its organizers. With the help of two wise women who have escaped prisons in the Soviet Union and Cuba, and another lady who was deceived by her civil rights group, Josephine discovers many social justice organizations have corrupt roots. Josephine & Jon covert to Catholicism, but Jonathan ventures away to sit at the feet of an Indian guru. The journey ends in 1969.

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Outskirts of the Woods:

Poems, Plays, Essays, and One Biography

by Cate Murray

Have your paradigms ever shifted? This collection illustrates the changes of a spiritual seeker: Vedantic to Christian, Pro-Choice to Pro-Life, and Bohemian to Settled.BERTHA’S BUTTER CLUB, a one-act comedy, jabs at every person who thinks they have the formula to make others lose weight. DYSLEXIC chronicles my many and long attempts to seek a cure. Other essays compare convicted murderers Susan Atkins and Karla Faye Tucker, and uncover the tragic deaths of two abortive women. Also included is an essay based on a Caroline Gordon short story, my creative writing mentor at the University of Dallas.OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES: This one-act has a 13 year old pro-life debater who greatly loves her dad who performs abortions. The play is followed by DAUGHTER OF INDIA, a biography of my aunt, Sanskrit scholar Camille Svensson.At last comes poetry. One poem can hold a whole universe — finding love, losing love, reaching for God but touching a dark hole and discovering the true God.This book covers forty years of love, disillusionment, and then finding love again.

        Now in Hardcover at B & N

Speculative Encounters: New Stories From the Slipstream

Is a lineman really transported to an alternate reality after a lightning strike or is he hallucinating? When vampires steal a man’s wife, he follows to seek revenge with the assistance of a female vampire who offers him eternity. Driving on a lonely country road at night, a man in a pickup sees a woman’s bloody arm reach out from the shoulder of the two-lane blacktop road. In the aftermath of a comet’s disintegration in Earth’s atmosphere, survivors must adapt – and was that an actual comet that exploded? These and other stories await, dark and suspenseful encounters within the otherly realm of the slipstream.

theSlipstream:
Speculative fiction is comprised of three related genres: science fiction, fantasy and horror. The slipstream intermingles these genres then plants imagination’s resulting seeds into the potting soil of mainstream fiction. In the realm of the unknown, all possibilities and even mutations flower and co-exist abundantly. Slipstream is a state of mind. It disrupts and distorts reality, surprising readers into seeing the otherness in all things. It breaks through the safe borders that rationality seeks to enforce.

Dr. Catherine Murray: (from a Goodreads review) SPECULATIVE ENCOUNTERS by C. L. Nichols is an excellent collection of stories that cross many genres. Some are science fiction, some are horror, some are speculative in nature but not easily categorized. Several are mainstream with speculative leanings. I truly enjoyed the short stories in this volume and look forward to reading more from this author. I also look forward to the novel excerpted here, REMNANTS, a post-apocalyptic novel written in the multi-character style of Stephen King. I don’t know if this is available on Amazon, or if he is still working on it. DEAD OF WINTER also looks to be very good.

My Guitar Journal : Save Your Music Here

     Book 4 in the My Guitar Books series

A large number of Fillable Forms. Blank Guitar Diagrams to save your riffs, chords, scales, arpeggios, ideas, notes, set lists, etc. Compose new songs and save them where they cannot be forgotten.

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All the books in the My Guitar Books series help you create a more complex sound and let you show off your skills as a complete guitarist.