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

The plan is simple, though Didi worries it might be too simple as she adjusts the hem of her uniform in reflexive discomfort and waits beside Bo for the lift to come to a halt. She wants to find time to yell at him and give him trouble for lying to her all along. Not out of any real anger, considering she's finally accepted her part of the blame for his lack of forthcoming information. More so in the need to just shout and be shouted at, to release her anxiety and her temper in a flare that would be forgiven and forgotten and moved past with smooth haste by a friend who understands. But it seems like a super personal moment kind of event to engage in and she just doesn't feel like it's appropriate just yet.


She'll rescue Dad then give Bo a piece of her mind and maybe even kiss him when it's over, if he's lucky.


Chapter 89: Dad's Rescue