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

Lilas moves past Didi after that bold statement, hand finding the gunslinger's metal one with what looks like human flesh. But she can't have been like him, not and be normal like she is, not without a mechsuit to keep what's left of her in one piece. What about her mushed brain wired close to the plastanium? Her heart, while still human enough, linked to the human plasma? Her enhancements of fissionable materials and carbon based fuel fluids running through the conduits keeping her consciousness alive? Didi's closely aware of the workings of a gunslinger's body now she's had so much time with her very own-and yes, she still thinks of him as hers despite his clear personality. How is this reversal to near human possible?


Chapter 47: Cyborgs