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

She gapes at the shift in reality on the other side of the barrier they've passed, swallowed by green and gold where once the blinding sun reflected off only dusty brown gray. She looks back the way they've come as the lander slows further, shifting into a soft tilt as it angles toward something glittering in the distance. There's a shimmering shield behind them, above them, filtering the outside so well the sun seems warm but kind, the air clean, the cleanest she's ever seen, even on her own Trash Heaven where the atmosphere hangs so thick with pollution it transforms sunrise and sunset into a million shades of color.


Chapter 46: The Other Side Of The Barrier