Deja Vu and the Phone Sex Queen, Michael McIrvin, J-Press Publishing, 2002
Zeke Reilly is prone to having visions of future events. He can't change the future by envisioning it, nor can he control his visions. It's just one more aspect of life that seems to lurch from one event to another. Stuck in a loveless marriage, one day, he surprises his wife and her lover, and kills them. On the run, and caught in a convenience store robbery, Zeke meets Cindy Sweet.
Leaving her own unhappy marriage, Cindy tries her hand, and fails, as a phone sex operator. She later decides to start her own phone sex service. It struggles for a while, then suddenly takes off in popularity. Cindy and Zeke live together for a time, until Zeke decides that he has to keep running from the police, and that his destiny lies somewhere in the Aztec and Mayan lands of Mexico.
Cantarita is a Navajo prostitute living in an abandoned building with a man called The Preacher. He constantly prays for an honest man to come along, marry Cantarita and take her away. One day, Zeke shows up. The Preacher "marries" them, and Cantarita takes Zeke farther into the Native American world of the southwestern United States, closer to the explanation for Zeke's visions.
This is a superb piece of writing. It's just weird enough to be really good. But it also looks at things like unreasoning violence, and the commercialization of tragedy, so it's quite plausible, and well worth reading.
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