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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 few bulbs still lit flickered weakly in the darkness on the other side of the doors.


"Damn," Genvieve said. "Should have brought a flashlight."


Fresco found the disappointment hard. "I guess we'll have to come back."


"Give me a second." He heard Strom shuffling around in the dark before something clanged, like metal being forced. After a moment of stillness while Fresco fretted over leaving and decided to stay while the others went for flashlights, something behind him clicked. Row after row of fluorescents came to life, illuminating a corridor of closed doors.


Fresco glanced back over his shoulder. Strom slammed shut the cover of a gray box. "Figured it was worth a try."


The other three came to stand next to Fresco. No one spoke for a long time. As one, they started walking.


Chapter 106: Where It All Began