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.

Trash Heaven has been Didi Duke’s home for as long as she can remember. The dumping ground of the galaxy provides her with everything she’s ever needed or wanted. Except, maybe, the attention of her inventor father, always busy with his next creation. Good thing he’s passed on his talents to his sixteen-year-old daughter. With the company of her best friend—the cyborg crow, Pip—Didi is happy to scour her territory for treasures discarded as trash. But, when an evil Underlord kidnaps her father, Didi can no longer hide herself away in the garbage. Her plan to resurrect a retired cyborg gunslinger and rescue her dad leads her into danger and the heart of the rotting planet—Trash City. She’ll figure out the rest of her plan—eventually.

Didi and the Gunslinger

Their arguing gets on the last nerve remaining her as Didi slumps on a rusting barrel inside the warehouse they consider neutral ground and does her best not to scream at the lot of them for being ridiculous. Caricatures of people, she can only assume, not true folk with normal minds. How else can they justify the last ninety or so standard minutes yelling incoherent threats at each other over a sullen girl and a churlish young man both bent on causing Didi no end of aggravation? Her scowling face has to hold back all the irritation, a crust of unhappiness forming a wall between her and the strutting idiots who don't seem to care they've ruined her day with their pointless feuding.


Chapter 39: Tantrum