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

Now she is afraid, her trembling growing worse while she climbs with the massive first mate grumpily grunting behind her. She scrambles as fast as she can up the narrow ladder, grateful the going is slower for him and his bulk, keeping her out of his reach so he can't push her again. Didi leaps nimbly out into the upper corridor ahead of him, waiting for him to haul his huge self into the passage and moving without his encouragement to the lift at the end of the corridor to avoid the painfully irritating pressure of his hands.


She has a million questions but her tongue swells in her mouth, thick with terror. She's sure she likely wouldn't be able to put words into coherent lines regardless if she had the chance to ask any of her inquires. Instead, she exits the lift into the top corridor, the change of scenery the biggest shock of all.


Chapter 69: Captain Atlas