I’m an international, multiple award-winning author with a passion for the voices in my head. As a singer, songwriter, independent filmmaker and improv teacher and performer, my life has always been about creating and sharing what I create with others. Now that my dream to write for a living is a reality, with over a hundred titles in happy publication and no end in sight, I live in beautiful Prince Edward Island, Canada, with my giant cats, pug overlord and overlady and my Gypsy Vanner gelding, Fynn.

The blue joy is calling... but can Fresco survive it?

"Do you know what happened to you?" Joey's voice broke a little. Fresco shook his head. The kid nodded, like it was no big surprise." Yeah, me either. No one seems to. We just have normal lives, you know? Then suddenly you wake up with this thing eating into you," he swallowed hard, "and that's it. The rest is Wasteland."

Seventeen-year-old Fresco Conte is an ordinary All-American kid from an upper middle-class family. He plays football. His girlfriend is a cheerleader. Life is good. Until unexplained things, scary things, start to take him over. Like surviving an accident that should have killed him. Or hearing the thoughts of the people around him whether he wants to or not.
 
When the men in the dark blue coveralls come for him, Fresco is forced into addiction to the blue joy known as Wasteland and set free on the street, with no answers and only his hunger to keep him company.

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Fresco fought consciousness, not knowing why staying in the dark was preferable to waking. His mind tried to pull him deeper, to submerge him in the quiet of sleep, wanting him to stay forever. He reached for the stillness and embraced it, feeling the cool and calm of it wrap him in a cocoon and shield him from harm.


But the light would not be denied. It tugged at him, coaxed him, tempted him with sounds and warmth. Until, at last, he sighed deeply and came back to the real world.


Instantly, he remembered everything and wished he hadn't.


He tensed as he realized he was in the back seat of a moving car. Heart pounding, he reached out with his power, but felt nothing from the front seat. Fresco lurched to a sitting position and grabbed the driver.


Medley cried out as she lost control. They swerved violently. Fresco pulled back, but not before the rocking motion of the vehicle knocked him back down.


Chapter 36: No Going Back