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 woke up to his brand new life. Everything was clear at last, like the curtain of fear and anger was lifted from him. Within his mind hummed the song of the City, a steady and loving presence he knew now meant so much more than he first thought.


Fresco bounded out of the hospital bed and went to the bathroom mirror, certain he would see the change in himself physically. He was just a little disappointed his old familiar face looked back at him.


The door lock clicked and someone came in. He felt it was Parker without even reaching and when she closed the door behind her he rushed to her and enveloped her in a giant hug.


I love you. He poured his whole heart into it. Parker laughed and hugged him back.


I love you, too. Fresco felt it, to the core of himself, how much she did, and it lit him up like a star.


"We use our voices to communicate around here," she said. "Dr. Meritas prefers it."


Chapter 63: Brand New Life