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 has a room. With a useable door and a steamclean station to stand in and let fragrant mist cleanse her body of the stink of below. And fresh clothes, more denim and a thin t-shirt with a jacket to match. Didi tucks her filthy rags, what's left of her gifted wear from Elian, into the trash slot, acutely please to know they will be sliding down to the very pod she just unblocked and the remains will be composted to feed the crew.


Mintz said little when he pushed her-gently this time-through an open hatch just a short walk from the lift and the captain's quarters. "Clean yourself up." Well, that's hardly an order considering she was about to itch her own skin from her bones the instant she knew she had the chance to wash the grime of the mech room and other horrible locations from herself at last.


Chapter 70: Change Of Scenery