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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Outside, Medley slipped a small, wrapped rectangle into his hand. "You want to make a good impression."


He laughed and popped in the gum, chewing with more enthusiasm than necessary. "Maybe you should have taken Daniel, then."


She glared at him as she shoved past the two boys guarding the front door, the light from the street shining from the lenses of her glasses. "I'll be taking that gum back before we get there."


Fresco snapped a bubble at her and had to dodge the all-knuckles punch she threw in answer.


His happy mood faded as they hurried through the streets to their rendezvous. Medley checked her watch repeatedly, muttering under her breath. Fresco's mention of taking a taxi or jumping on a transit bus was ignored, so he stopped bringing it up.


Chapter 99: Meeting