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 stayed with his mother for one more moment, straightening her glasses, smoothing her hair with a shaking hand. At last he laid her out on the cool grass and stood up. He met Katherine's eyes through the shield and deliberately let it drop.


He didn't get the chance to kill her. The park was suddenly full of kids and Garbagemen and shouting guards in black suits. Fresco felt hands on him, pulling him away. He fought at first, but finally gave in as Daniel's mind tunneled through his grief and shook him hard.


Daniel was right. It was her only wish. Fresco turned and ran, but not from fear. He ran so he could find a way to make them all pay for what they had done.


It was Genvieve who pulled him to a halt two streets from the safe house and shoved him into a dark and abandoned alley.


Chapter 100: Loss And Retribution