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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If Fresco's heart didn't recognize Garris, his mind would have doubted. As badly as he looked in the hospital


the memory surged back diamond clear, the stench of burned flesh and antiseptic, and the beaten look on the man's face


it was nothing compared to now. Garris was always thin, but the emaciated and sunken shell of a man who huddled in the chair far more resembled one of the Wasted kids he used to shelter than the tall and expressive man Fresco learned to respect, love, and despise for his betrayal.


His eyes slid over Fresco, seeing him, but unwilling to acknowledge his presence in the room. Meritas, however, waved Fresco forward to stand next to him.


"John just dropped by for a visit." The doctor's glasses flashed in the light as he looked up at Fresco and squeezed his hand. Fresco squeezed back. Meritas turned back to Garris. "You have no idea how pleased we are at your contribution to the program, John."


Chapter 69: Fall Of Garris