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 brothers emerged from the basement into a commotion. Fresco was so wrapped up in their private conversation he totally missed the drama spinning itself into life two floors above him.


Genvieve was in the center of it. Of course. Fresco was in no mood to be charitable. She shouted orders and everyone around her was so emotionally and mentally worked up he couldn't figure out what was wrong, only catching flashes of images, one of which made him cold.


EMZee. The sugarpop who first beat him when he was a newborn Waster and turned him into an addicted slave. He and his two boys tortured Fresco, abused him and made him abuse others in their name. And he had done it and accepted their treatment. All for the blue joy and the escape it brought.


Chapter 96: EMZee