Publisher's Synopsis
LitPick Top Choice Book Award Winner
Firebird Book Award Winner Literary Titan Silver Award Winner Readers' Favorite Honorable Mention Award Winner 2023 IAN Book Awards - Finalist C.A. Nicholas's magnum opus symphony is about to begin and he's reserved a seat for you. So come on in and I'll lead you to your place of honor as the house lights dim. Yes, your spot is beside the maestro as he teleports you and himself to various worlds! Diverse souls will befriend you there as they reveal the beauty of your life through their stories.
Organizations which reside within C.A. Nicholas's imagination are here to review Cycles of the Phoenix, his book of short stories!
"As subsequent stories drastically recontextualize former ones, the multi-genre Cycles of the Phoenix universe ultimately reveals itself to be an urgently life-affirming, humanizing, and self-empathic tragedy, as well as a bittersweet tale." - The Atlantis Times
"Within one thematically brutal and adult oriented tale that's mostly seen through kids' perceptions, there's an original children's story which allegorizes most of the 'real life' narrative." - The Lake Park Times
"This book shows that C.A. Nicholas isn't a poetic storyteller. Rather, he is a poet who creates stories; his tales have the bodies of narratives whose souls are poems, cascading with symbolism, rhythm, dreamlike (including nightmarish) sensory descriptions, events which rhyme with one another, and conventionless form." - The Dry Tortugas Courrier
"Though there is some slasher level brutality here, the overwhelming majority of the violence is psychologically graphic within this empathic book." - The Pahokee Post
"The author's style seems to be inspired by C.S. Lewis, Edgar Allen Poe, Madeleine L'Engle, and...Vincent Van Gough." - The Passionate Painters' Journal
"Cycles of the Phoenix dares to find uplifting messages not only at the peaks of optimism and humor, but in the deepest trenches of raw trauma, grief, and despair."- The Twenty-Four-Hour Nights Dispatch
"There are plot driven stories and character driven ones yet even the former variety of tales are rooted in the characters' psychology."- The Creativity Within All of Us Organization
Cover art by Schweiz (meigru).
