Chapters

Part 1

intro

New years eve evening. Walking around, penniless, no cash to score for the night. Finds ten pounds and heads to the Blackhouse* to score off the addicts there.

*Previous sketch for a novel set in and around the Blackhouse to be incorporated into this one

Death and ressurection

Introduction to the blackhouse. Meets the two users Jude (who he'd first gotten into smack with) and ????. who agree to sell him a half a bag of smack. They seem a little strange, on edge, like they're scheming something. The heroin they sell Jesus is toxic. They do not sell it to him to harm him but to offload a score they had made which had made them feel none too good. They are trying to recoup their lose by putting it onto someone else. They do not think for a second it will have the effect it does.  Their edginess is wondering what will be Jesus's reaction when he realises it isn't great stuff, the apprehension of the two having to unite and swear blind it is decent gear, the same stuff they are using. They needn't have worried. Jesus takes a shot in his foot. The shot kills Jesus immediately, leaving no time for any arguments. The two junkies try to revive Jesus. After years of talking of the best thing to do in the case of an overdose, giving advice to others and sharing their expertise, they are quite useless in a real life emergency and give quite inadequate (and altogether dangerous) CPR. Their resuscitation is unsuccessful. Jesus is dead. They panic. They can't have the police and ambulance to the house. They decide that with the crowds and the celebrations going on outside that they can carry him out in full view, holding him as if he's had too much to drink, and dump his body in the street. Before they do they strip Jesus of anything he has of any value or use. They take the few loose coins he has in change, his shirt and jacket, a silver ring and his shoes. Then they dump him in the street.

Some time later Jesus comes around. It is never clear if he really died and and came back to life, if he was never dead at all, or if he had died but infact, unknown to Jude & co, the resucitation had worked. Regardless Jesus is conscious, having come around in the street, half naked and his foot bleeding and completely out of sorts. He has no ability of reason or any real self-awareness. He doesn't even have the wherewithal to wonder what has happened or where he is. It is narrated that he is suffering from a strange post-death illness, a kind of supposed sickness that comes from having been dragged over the other side by death. Jesus is left with just his very base instincts. The most overpowering of them is an instinct to get home. This doesn't manifest itself in an intellectual decision but an instinct, some cognitive understanding of where he has a place to go. Jesus staggers off and that stagger takes him home. During the long walk he regains some intellectual functions and though very vague they do allow for some fuzzy questioning of what has happened and allow him tio very lightly assess his plight. When he arrives home he makes the stairs and climbs into bed, a mattress on the floor, in his trousers. 

Part 2

10 Days of Sick (order to be arranged)

Chapter 1: Tears

Chapter 2: Sweat

Chapter 3: Mucus

Chapter 4: Vomit

Chapter 5: Shit

Chapter 6: Bile

Chapter 7: Piss

Chapter 8 : Blood

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Part 3

The Coming of the Dark Light

The End