Patti Larsen

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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Diamond City Trilogy

The back of the van was like a second home to Fresco by now. The steady sway and bump hardly caught his attention, the empty gurney just another piece of the puzzle making up his life. He thought little about it at all.


Parker, however, seemed excited. "Can I tell him now?"


Gina glanced at Strom who leaned back and gave her a thumbs up.


"This is my favorite part of the whole job," Parker gushed. "I can't wait for you to experience it with me. Us." She flushed, leaning forward and grabbing his hand. Her enthusiasm got him going.


"Are you going to tell me or not?" He squeezed her fingers


her soft skin on his, the warmth of her, how much he loved her


Parker pulled away and sat back, but gave no indication if she felt what he was thinking. "We're going to a rescue."


Fresco glanced at Gina who laughed. "He doesn't know what that means," she said. "A child just broke out. The caretakers called and we're on our way to bring him home."


Chapter 70: Called To A Breakout