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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That confession floored even Fresco and he knew about her involvement with the original G.E.M. group. But she never told him she was the one who came up with Wasteland in the first place. He was lucky they were all so stunned by her confession, because it bought him the time he needed to get to her before all hell broke over them.


Perfect, I'd say, she shot back. Now get the hell out of my way. I have a piper to pay and work to do.


Fresco didn't want to step aside. The look on Daniel's face made him afraid for Medley. But he did as she asked. The kids were yelling, some throwing things at her. The room was full of their fury, trembling and hazy with it as they manifested their power in protest. Yet none of them approached her or attacked her directly with their gifts, backing off as much as they did for Strom's passing.


Chapter 98: Medley's Power