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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Apple was flushed and still giggling by the time they headed for the safe house. Fresco knew she would have loved to stay longer, but the park was filling up and neither of them were in a position to answer questions from curious kids.


She continued to hold his hand, swinging their arms back and forth, humming a song under her breath as she skipped along beside him. It was the first time he felt normal in as long as he could remember.


The power blow of a kid on Wasteland shattered his fairy tale and jerked them both to an abrupt halt.


Fresco turned to Apple who immediately scowled at him and clung to his hand even harder.


"I'm coming with you," she said. Her quivering lip and the slight hitch in her voice did him in.


Chapter 89: Next Generation