Cathleen With has written a book of short stories called Skids. Create a Real Available Beach is about "Crab Park" at the foot of Main Street in Vancouver and is the setting of a girl who is going to see her child, who is in foster care, at Crab Park. She is a singer at the famous Balmoral Hotel deep in the heart of the infamous Downtown Eastside, the sight of controversial gentrification by the BC government at Vancouver's mayor Sam Sullivan to move out the meth addicts, crack addicts, heroin addicts, and alcoholics to make room for beautiful apartment complexes like the new Woodward's complex to clean up the DTES for the 2010 Olympics. Skids includes stories from Davie Village, St. Paul's Hospital, Fraser Street, East Hastings street, and the Downtown Eastside. The stories in Skids also focus on patients in UBC 6A Psychiatric Unit, Vancouver Psychiatric Assessment Unit at VGH, and recovery and rehab houses like Westminster House in New Westminster, Turning Point in Vancouver, Aurora House in Vancouver, Peardonville House in Abbotsford, and Great Northern Way Detox Centre, 314 Great Northern Way, Vancouver. Most of the characters are dealing with issues like heroin, meth, ice, crack, cocaine, pot, weed, alcohol addictions, and sexual abuse, child physical, mental, and sexual abuse, rape, sexual assault, and gang rape, prostitution in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison focuses on a young part Inuvialuit, part white girl in the Western Arctic fictional town of Jackfish Bay, off the eastern channel of the Mackenzie River near Inuvik, Northwest Territories, who has her baby in a juvenile youth facility. She was involved in a murder of a store clerk with her former boyfriend. She recounts the past, especially her upbringing in this town that has Arctic oil and gas workers, native Gwich'in and Inuvialuit, and white social workers and teachers, near Inuvik, NT. The Western Arctic communities lie on the vast Mackenzie River, snaking up toward the Arctic Sea. The Dempster Highway, which ends in Inuvik, NT, is the most northerly road in the world, only to be leangthened by the ice road, or Iceroad that forms in November up to Tuk, or Tuktoyaktuk. Trista, the protagonist in Having Faith in the Polar Girl's Prison, has her mentally disabled baby, Faith, in prison, and attempts to sort out her life, her memories of the abuse she has suffered in this vast, cold northern community, to come to terms with her life and to find hope in her future. Khmer Rubbings is about a young Khmer or Cambodian boy named Sohmetea who tries to get out of the child sex trade ring he is in in Siem Reap, to make money from Angkor Wat temple rubbings instead. Phreeques is about a group of former sideshow circus and carny workers from around the world who come together to empower each other and create their own megashow in Las Vegas.