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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Father's smile redoubled Fresco's adoration.


Touch them, he said. See what they really are past the bodies and the existence.


Fresco did. As soon as Father said it, it was done. And it was beautiful. His friends, his family, all of them, were people no longer, but columns of energy, pulsing and flickering with power. They were glowing and perfect and he loved them even though he didn't think it was possible to love them more than he had.


Fresco caressed them, each and every one with his mind, exploring them one at a time and together, feeling their potential, the core of their power, using his own to do what drugs and tests failed to. Fresco used himself to entice the power around him to its potential as every single soul in his grasp swelled into fulfillment.


Chapter 114: Father