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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The others weren't far. They trickled into the building in pairs and small groups as the last of the daylight died. Fresco could feel them all around him, their energy and gifts pressing against him. His pace slowed until he was barely moving. Daniel didn't comment, but neither did he let Fresco stop completely.


By the time they reached their destination, the last doorway between Fresco and the painful world of Wasted kids, he was sweating from the effort of keeping it together.


What if they judge you? What if you freak out and do something to them? What if you just being there means the Garbagemen are coming and it's all your fault?


Daniel's mind gripped his firmly and squeezed just a little, cutting Justin off.


Chapter 82:The Others