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WillieWorld (1998)
A 59 page poem/prose-poem drawn from the author's ten years' experience as a full time paramedic in New York City's 911 system. It is scary and dreamy; heartbreaking, funny, and gorgeous. -
Skels (2004) - Finalist, 2004 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
Lyrical, violent, and surprisingly passionate, Skels is
an inventive yet realistic portrait of the urban underworld from a paramedic's
point of view. The story is based on an unusual idea: What would happen if the
ambulance world was permeated with the works of past authors, and the homeless
patients (the "skels") carried the consciousness of the writers? What would a
paramedic do if she met a great poet, dirty and covered with lice, and was
granted the chance to save him - not from dying but from his own life? A
funny, gritty urban thriller, Skels pits corrupt cops, bumbling firemen,
drunken softball tournaments, and careening transvestites against this surreal
literary environment, realistically portraying a New York City of 1979 rich
with an ancient truth that is all but invisible from the outside. The
characters within it must face brutality and illness, vengeance and despair,
and find help in tenderness and the threads that connect them to the past.