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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Fresco didn't know what to say. Or even why she was accusing him. He didn't get a chance to fight for himself.


Daniel grabbed her and spun her around, so much anger on his face she flinched back from him like he struck her.


"I'm done with this, Gen," he said, his voice quiet, but so intense it carried. "No more, you hear me? That kid was a plant. The Garbagemen set us up. It's no more Fresco's fault than yours."


She didn't say a word. Not like he gave her much of a chance.


"Every word you say against him undermines all of us. You're spreading poison, Gen, and it's affecting the whole group. You need to get over whatever the hell your problem is and take a step back."


Chapter 93: Spreading Poison