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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It took some time before Fresco was able to stand. Even longer for him to force one foot in front of the other. It wasn't just his physical exhaustion or the weight of what he had done driving him to his knees with every step.


It didn't matter so much, though. Daniel was there, his dark hero, one arm around him, keeping him upright. Fresco turned to look at his brother, still amazed Daniel was alive. He watched him die, beaten to death at the orders of Strom, the leader of the Garbagemen. And yet, here he was, the brother he remembered, though deep scars now twisted his cheeks and his once chocolate eyes burned with blue fire.


Wasteland blue. The glowing color of the blue joy. The drug which made them what they were. But, for Fresco, no longer. For him, everything had changed.


Chapter 80: Brothers Reunited