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Nurse noir fiction set in the American Wild West -- a dystopian near-future when nurses are armed with handguns for self protection and fear rules the night. The author imagines a night shift in a Denver hospital where a crazed shooter is on the loose. Don't worry, the doctors and nurses are all packing heat. All but one, that is...

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.

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 number four in a serialized collection of short speculative fiction.

Nurse Kit Carson, working per diem as a hired gun in WellMart's emergency department joins a medical vigilante group intent on taking down the evil sheriff Bully Ratzer and his posse of thugs. In this episode, Carson has been assigned to deliver the exotic dancer Balmy Wether to Wyoming territory for safekeeping with the Arapaho people.

Nurses Kit Carson and Tonto get temporary gigs across town at WellMart's Emergency Department, where they try to save the life of a well-renowned and well-endowed entertainer named Stormy Wether. Saturday Night is the second episode in Kit Carson's Knife and Gun Club. Lurid drama and trauma in America's new Wild West!

Set in America's New Wild West, this medical thriller features Kit Carson, a single mom nurse, who joins the Vigilantes for Healthcare Justice to fight against armed crazies, a crooked sheriff, and the greed of the corporate hospital. Drama and trauma on the night shift in five episodes. In the vein of Samuel Shem's The House of God and B.P. Reiter's The Saturday Night Knife & Gun Club, Collison writes a medical thriller from a nurse's point of view, with gun locked & loaded and tongue firmly in cheek.