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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He came back to himself in a rush of adrenaline, all controls shattered from around his mind. He didn't have time to think, only act. Fresco lifted the boy in one smooth motion and ran.


The others were so shocked by his sudden reversal it took them a moment to react. Fresco crashed between Parker and Gina and pounded his way down the street, swerving through a nearby yard and over a low hedge before he heard Strom shout his name. By then he was flying, his power fueling his steps. All that time with good food and strength training put him back in peak condition, not to mention the enhancements the non-addictive version of Wasteland offered. He felt like he could run forever with it feeding him.


Someone attacked him from behind. A blast of telekinetic power hit him, and he recognized the feeling of Gina. It didn't hurt him, but it did make him stumble and almost fall. He needed a plan and fast.


Chapter 71: Freedom