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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Strom nodded to Fresco, but addressed everyone.


"Assignments." Strom's words were met with instant attention. Not a whisper of complaint or a moment of hesitation, just immediate obedience. Fresco copied them. This was his new life and if his supposition was true, he was about to make it matter.


why couldn't he feel them, any of them? Why was he cut off from everything, disconnected from his own power, adrift and alone


The tiny part of him that remained tried to reach out, but there was nothing to reach out with, only an echo of what he was, puny as a puff of air. It wailed in despair.


"Team Four, I need you on the south side of the city. We've had a report of an imminent breakout." Strom fell silent, staring at a woman for a moment. She froze as though listening to something before she and five other people departed immediately.


Chapter 65: Assignments