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 target was an apartment building on the other side of the city. Fresco hadn't taken the subway in years, not since a junior high outing to a museum. He remembered feeling uncomfortable, a weird thrill giving him shivers. This time was no different. Oddly, he avoided it during his time as a Waster and so did most of the other Wasted kids. Something about being underground gave him a serious case of the creeps.


Fresco held his position across the street and waited for Daniel's signal. His stomach gave a small twist of unhappy warning, but he shoved it aside. Daniel knew what he was doing. All his people did. They successfully rescued kids before this. He refused to let his fear get in the way. As hard as Fresco tried, the worm of doubt wouldn't stay still.


Chapter 91: The Target