{"id":9304,"date":"2017-12-13T09:12:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T16:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lindacollison.com\/?p=9304"},"modified":"2018-04-28T19:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T02:50:55","slug":"friday-night-fiction-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/friday-night-fiction-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Knife &#038; Gun Club fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Kit Carson, RN &#8212; gun-toting critical care nurse on the night shift in fictional hospital in Denver, Colorado.\u00a0 &#8220;Guns and cowboy boots; it&#8217;s a western thing. Part of our culture,&#8221; Kit explains as she guns up to go to work.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-size-base review-text\" data-hook=\"review-body\">Author\/editor Tim Queeney compares the story to Paddy Chayefsky&#8217;s screenplay,<em> The Hospital<\/em>.\u00a0 Queeney writes &#8220;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!&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Friday-Night-Knife-Gun-Club-ebook\/dp\/B00BA7B3C6\"><em>Friday Night Knife &amp; Gun Club<\/em><\/a> is an absurd fictional memoir &#8212; first in a series of connected short stories. Read &#8217;em and weep.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Friday-Night-Knife-Gun-Club-ebook\/dp\/B00BA7B3C6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter size-large wp-image-9305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lindacollison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1391-656x1024.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.lindacollison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1391-656x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27656%27%20height%3D%271024%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20656%201024%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27656%27%20height%3D%271024%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1391-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1391-656x1024.jpg 656w, https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1391-768x1200.jpg 768w, https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1391.jpg 1311w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Friday-Night-Knife-Gun-Club-ebook\/dp\/B00BA7B3C6\"><em>Friday Night Knife &amp; Gun Club<\/em> <\/a>is on its way to becoming #1 bestseller on Kindle in the <em>Medical<\/em> and <em>Violence in Society<\/em> categories.<\/p>\n<p>Available now in paperback and electronic format &#8212; and coming soon as an audiobook, performed by Annika Connor. Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Kit Carson, RN &#8212; gun-toting critical care nurse on [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235,413,516,234,85],"tags":[522,519,518,65,517,309,524,268,521,523,520],"class_list":["post-9304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-art","category-fictional-memoir","category-nurse-noir","category-short-fiction","category-writing-and-publishing","tag-absurdist","tag-guncontrol","tag-healthcare","tag-kindle","tag-medical","tag-nursing","tag-paddy-cheyefsky","tag-satire","tag-social-commentary","tag-the-hospital","tag-violence-in-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9304"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9481,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions\/9481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}