December 22, 2017

Friday Night Knife & Gun Club, the audiobook
Story written by L.S.Collison
Performed by Annika Connor
Cover art by Annika Connor

Author Linda Collison and New York based artist Annika Connor have collaborated to produce a fifty minute audio performance, Friday Night Knife & Gun Club.

The short story is absurdist fiction, a noir thriller about a shooter in an urban hospital in the American West. Annika Connor, as Kit Carson, RN, narrates the story as her shift from hell unfolds. Collison calls the story a fictional memoir, as much of it is based on incidents in her own life as a single mother and nurse working the night shift in Denver area hospitals. “It’s a satirical statement of the current culture of gun violence in America,” the author says. “I wrote the first draft in a response to the Newtown school
shootings. Unfortunately, it’s becoming less fictional every day.”
 

Linda Collison, who sometimes publishes as L.S.Collison, is the author of novels, essays, short fiction, and screenplays. Her novel Star-Crossed was a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age – 2007. Collison worked more than a decade in Denver hospitals as a registered nurse.

Annika Connor, artist and actor, performed and produced the audiobook. She also created the cover art, from her own original water color, Night Trigger.
 

Friday Night Knife & Gun Club is the first of a series of “nurse noir” fiction from L.S. Collison and Annika Connor, who plan to continue the collaboration with more in the series to come. The audiostory is available for purchase on Audible, Amazon, or iTunes.