Bronze award from the Colorado Independent Publishers Association for Nurse Kit Carson’s Knife & Gun Club
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The First Five Episodes – anthology category, 2023.
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Each “Episode” is available as a booklet, and all five are combined as an anthology.
Friday Night Knife & Gun Club
A short satire by Linda Collison
On the night shift a lot of bad shit goes down. This short story takes place in the near-future in the Land of the Free where no gun control exists and everyone packs semi-automatics to deal out justice as they see fit. Tonight Kit Carson, RN, has the worst shift ever. Read ’em and weep.
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“Linda Collison’s Friday Night Knife and Gun Club is a wry commentary on the casual violence that seems so often to occupy the news. Her depiction of hospital night work is in the tradition of Paddy Chayefsky’s absurdist and scalding screenplay for the film The Hospital. Gun-toting nurses and doctors do their best to make it through a wild, snowy night shift in an under-staffed hospital in the American heartland. This is a well-written, funny book filled with sharply observed detail that entertains even as it touches deeper issues of disconnection and alienation in modern society. Highly recommended!”
— Tim Queeney, author of The Atlas Fracture
“Well this is a feisty little number; a pistol packing nurse’s night duty is dramatically interrupted when an intruder is detected. Great atmosphere and a good deal of technical background make it a spellbinding read, although not for those of a sensitive nature. The cover art, which is worth the purchase price alone, sums up the mood of the story perfectly. Recommended.”
–Alaric Bond, author of Turn a Blind Eye.
Saturday Night Knife & Gun Club
A short satire by Linda Collison
Nurses Kit Carson and Tonto get temporary gigs across town at WellMart’s Emergency Department where they join Doc Halliday in trying to save the life of a well-renowned (and well-endowed) entertainer named Stormy Wether. Saturday Night is the second short episode of Kit Carson’s Knife & Gun Club, following Friday Night Knife and Gun Club — lurid drama and trauma in America’s new Wild West! Read ’em & weep, cowgirl.
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“In the tradition of Paddy Chayefsky’s absurdist and scalding screenplay for the film The Hospital”
— Tim Queeney, author of The Atlas Fracture
“Collision creates a reality that stands on the three pillars of the contemporary present, a venerated past, and a dystopian future.”
–Gregory Block
“The reader is transported from the routine of a modern hospital to a parallel world of intrigue, skulduggery and mayhem that appears quite normal to everyone around.”
— M. Muir
Sunday Night Knife & Gun Club
A short satire by Linda Collison
You are hereby requested to appear at the Watering Hole Saloon, Sunday night at 9:00 pm.
Come alone and come armed.
~ High Plains Vigilantes for American Justice
My stomach did a flip- flop, my fingertips tingled. Carefully I put the slip of paper back in the envelope and stuffed it inside my Kevlar vest. There must be some mistake. Not to mention, the Watering Hole was such a dive. Only the drovers and the dregs drank there.
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What readers are saying about Nurse Kit Carson’s Knife & Gun Club:
“This is a great short story and a fun read… right up until the s*** hits the fan. This is not a book to read by yourself on a stormy night while you are waiting in a hospital emergency room!
Sharp, deadpan writing with a slightly hallucinatory feel” Don Mos — author
“A well-written, funny book filled with sharply observed detail that entertains even as it touches deeper issues of disconnection and alienation in modern society.” Tim Queeney –author
Monday Night Knife & Gun Club
A short satire by Linda Collison
While dodging the West’s deadliest virus, nurses Kit Carson and Tonto, along with Doc Halliday, are tasked with Infiltrating secret, high stakes card games and stealing scarce medical supplies stockpiled at the High Plains Fort. Will the Vigilantes succeed in bringing healthcare justice to High Plains in America’s new Wild West? Episode #4 in a serialized collection of short speculative fiction.
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What readers are saying about Nurse Kit Carson’s Knife & Gun Club:
“A timely addition to Collison’s fun series. The underlying condition in this one is a pandemic and a skewed health care system. Your favorite characters are back, this time going undercover during high stakes card games where the chips on the table are medical supplies and big cash. With a twist at the end and the main character in peril, the reader is left in limbo, eager for the next chapter.” — Susan Keogh
“Author, Linda Collison, has sharpened her pencil again to match the sharp wit evident in this episode of a most unusual and provocative series.”
M. Muir –author
Tuesday Night Requiem
A short satire by Linda Collison
Nurse Kit Carson’s life hangs by a thread. The deadly grippe has the town of High Plains under the gun and an assassin known as the Lone Gunman is delivering his own twisted form of justice. Meanwhile, Sheriff Bully Ratzer is hellbent on winning the governor’s seat and Balmy Wether comes back to town to expose him. Fiction set in America’s New Wild West
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Looking for Redfeather
A Novel by Linda Collison
Life is a highway…
Fifteen-year-old Ramie Redfeather leaves Cheyenne with music in his pocket and his thumb in the air. He’s looking to find his father, a man he’s never met. Ramie gets a ride with Chas Sweeney, a seventeen-year-old driving a “borrowed” Cadillac Eldorado with Maryland tags, who just happens to be passing through Cheyenne. Chas is running from the wreckage that is his world, sixteen hundred miles away. In Denver Ramie and Chas meet Mae B. LaRoux, an enchanting young singer from Baton Rouge. LaRoux, who struggles with a learning disability, is on a mission to become a professional musician. The three runaways band together and set out on a fast-paced road trip to get to the Austin Music Festival, looking for Redfeather along the way.
Audio Book Now Available!
Looking for Redfeather, a coming-of-age-on-the-road novel (and tongue-in-cheek homage to Jack Kerouace) is now out as an audiobook, read by actor Aaron Landon! Great listening for your next road trip!
Blue Luck Moon
A Novel by Linda Collison
For his entire life, twenty-two-year-old Chance Lee has been dreaming of greatness — something far beyond getting high in his mother’s old farmhouse, and much more prestigious than playing in a twangy West Virginia country band on the weekends. Unlike many other small-town boys with lofty dreams, Chance see his future of musical greatness, with his best friend Tollie by his side, as an undeniable fact. And when a reading from a local fortune-teller seems to affirm his unstoppable luck, it’s not long before he’s ready to break out of Falling Waters and put his plans in motion. But when creative differences and the undeniable pull of home begin to get in the way, Chance is finally given reason to doubt his lucky star — at least, until he finally hits the road alongside an unexpected companion.
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“A wonderfully written coming-of-age story” – Amy’s Book Reviews
Holiday on Planet Jolieterre
A Novel by Linda Collison
Nova Skylar is tired of her dead end job as cruise ship nurse aboard the Entitled, an interstellar pleasure vessel. She’s looking forward to a long-awaited vacation on Jolieterre with her human lover when an attack by space pirates ruins her plans.
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“A cleverly engineered satirical space adventure” – M. Muir