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THE STORIES OF C. L. NICHOLS
52 short stories, flash fiction, & micro Stories – 3 titles in 1!

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Speculative Encounters consists of the short stories.
Jump – Orb – SILENCE, She Screamed
Childhood Encounter – The Silent Chatter
The Rise & Fall of Jenny Sky – Till Death do us part
Violence is Blue – Two-Lane Blacktop
Harry & Sue – Eli’s Journey

Phantasmagoria is a collection of flash fiction stories and scenes.
Murmurs – Killer on the Run – Cannibals
Paula’s Plight – The Poet – The New King
Jack & Titan – Threshold – Revenant
River Spawn – Survivors – Happy Birthday
Invasion – Survivors, Too – Surviving the New World
Flight, or Die – Kendra on the Run – the Laazuhri
Life in the Triangle – Crank & Boomer – Hailstones
Apotheosis – Canoes & Catacombs

Quickies are micro stories under that name. They are meant to be read in one short sitting.
Toolie the Time Traveler – Jimmy Didn’t Come Home
Beyond Here Lies Nothin’ – Quickie
The Foot – U. F. O.
Scarecrow – Haunted
Adieu, Earth – The Thief
Sprouts – Adventures at the Town Dump
Voices – Insurrection
Carny Night – Walking the Wasteland
Assistance – Clairaudient

SPECULATIVE ENCOUNTERS Jan 10, 2021
by C. L. Nichols
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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.

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Schizogenesis Sep 26, 2021
by C. L. Nichols
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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.
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My Guitar Book Complete: 4 Books in 1! (My Guitar Books 5) Jan 7, 2021
by C. L. Nichols
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$3.99
About My Guitar Book Complete My Guitar Book Complete : 4 Books in 1! All 4 books of the My Guitar Books series are collected in this one book. Go from the basics of learning to play guitar to becoming a competent rhythm player then on to mastering the skills of the lead guitarist!Books in the My Guitar Books series: 1) My Guitar Tutor : Basics & Beyond 2) My Guitar Progressions : Beginner to Pro 3) My Guitar Scales : Play Lead Guitar 4) My Guitar Journal : Save Your Music Here 5) My Guitar Book Complete : 4 Books in 1!
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Speculative Encounters: New Stories from the Slipstream Aug 10, 2020
by C. L. Nichols
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Speculative fiction stories from C. L. Nichols In “Jump!” a lineman is transported to an alternate reality after a lightning strike, or is it only an hallucination? Someone awakens to find handwriting actually within his concrete bedroom floor in “The Silent Chatter.” A man’s wife is turned by a group of vampires; he follows and teams up with a female vampire to find them in “Till Death Do Us Part.” Other speculativve stories explore the unusual and bizarre environment of the slipstream. Added bonuses include selections from novels by C. L. Nichols for your enjoyment.

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My Guitar Scales: Play Lead Guitar (My Guitar Books Book 3) Jul 20, 2020
by C. L. Nichols
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Learn to play Lead Guitar!

Rock and country bands employ three or more players, typically at least four: a drummer, a bass player, a rhythm player, and a lead player. Rhythm players most often play the chord progression of the song, while lead players play notes over those chords using scales that lie within the key of the song. (A complete guitar player should learn to play both rhythm and lead.)

This book takes the guitar player beyond the chords of the rhythm player into the wild and wooly scales of the lead guitarist. It helps you work on combining both for the best of both worlds, taking you Far Beyond the Basics!

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My Guitar Progressions: Beginner to Pro (My Guitar Books Book 2) Jul 5, 2020
by C. L. Nichols
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My Guitar Progressions takes the guitarist from beginner to Pro. Learn all the necessary information, theory and techniques to elevate your guitar playing to beome a competent musician, confident in your abilities and capable of playing with anyone. Learn the skills to progress from beginner to Pro! For both acoustic solo artists and electric guitar rhythm players, MY GUITAR PROGRESSIONS will let you master the basics then move beyond. Learn power chords, open and barre chords and which chords belong in which song key. Also learn how to use a capo, all the common chords, how to transpose between keys then on to the chord progressions that allow you to play all the songs you yearn to play. If you read and practice the info in this book, you are sure to quickly advance to be the professional musician you have dreamed of becoming.
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My Guitar Tutor: Basics & Beyond (My Guitar Books Book 1) Jun 20, 2020
by C. L. Nichols
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Learn the necessary skills to progress from beginner to intermediate player to advanced guitarist. Quickly become a competent rhythm or lead musician. Master the basics, then move beyond! Learn open and barre chords, progressions within a key, how to use a capo, how to transpose between keys and the other required knowledge necessary to play guitar. Then, move on to play lead guitar by mastering pentatonic/major/minor scales, modes, arpeggios, triads, etc.MY GUITAR TUTOR’S massive amount of information, charts and diagrams will speed your way to fun and profit. Have fun at home. Join or form a band. Realize your dream of becoming a true musician.Master the basics … then go beyond!
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Banished! An”Aqua World” Sci-Fi Drama
by C. L. Nichols
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A major political party finds disfavor. A newly-formed party decides that expulsion from Earth is the most humane solution, rather than just executing the remaining believers. A water planet discovered not long before is in most ways Earthlike, except that its entire surface is ocean.

The forced colonists are sent in three spaceships, created to remain afloat forever and to function as their cities.

Usually in agreement, situations and obstacles arise that separate them into several camps.

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The Gnashing
by C. L. Nichols
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Leaving home, Melanie moves into the top floor of an old building, now turned into a duplex. However, the bottom floor is presently unleased, so she is alone there. Not long after moving in, she begins to hear a low gnashing sound. The source is difficult to find. Then, shadows begin to enter her room. She doesn’t want to move back to her father’s house, but may be forced to find some solution. Is the house haunted? Are the shadow people real or imagined? And what is that gnashing sound?
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Quickies
by C. L. Nichols
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An eclectic mix of short-short stories: sci-fi, speculative, dystopian, post-apocalyptic, alternate universe, fantasy, horror, thriller and other genres, with a cast of characters including survivors in the aftermath, vampires, time travelers, interstellar colonists, haunted house explorers, good samaritans and more!
… AND you can read one or more in a very short sitting!
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Phantasmagoria
by C. L. Nichols
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Short-short stories, vampires, time travelers, shadow people, eaters of the present, dystopian worlds, episodic stories and other real & imagined scenes from the macrocosm. Jimmy Didn’t Come Home Last Night is a young vampire’s coming-of-age story. Toolie builds a time machine from scratch, but forgets his dyslexia. A family moves into the country then the son discovers the dream well. When a record storm floods a major river, an ancient evil swims up from the depths into a submerged small town.
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Outburst
by C. L. Nichols
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The sunspots were getting bigger. Observatory officials watch massive solar flares head for earth. A paranoid living in a shack with an abundance of cats believes the government is responsible for halting the all-night radio broadcasts of The Unexplainable so heads to L.A. to save the host. A retiree who grows pansies for those in hospitals has strange dreams of an exploding sun and a young girl in the back seat of his car. In the aftermath, survivors must adapt to a changed world.