SICK JESUS


It was the night that they set the river on fire that Jesus Maria died and came back back to life. He had spent the better part  of that evening wandering around town, thinking dark thoughts, and wondering why the world had in turns been  so good and then so bad and then so good and bad again...




And so starts my novel SICK JESUS...

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BLASPHEMY AT ITS FINEST

The death, life and sickness of the heroin junkie Jesus Maria...



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On Millennium Eve Jesus Maria injects a hotshot of heroin and dies. After an unsuccessful attempt  to revive him, his body is stripped of everything of any use or value and dumped in the street. Three hours later Jesus comes around. He is confused and ill, suffering from Lazarus syndrome, after having touched death. Though unaware of who he is or what has happened, Jesus retains some kind of cognitive awareness of home and an instinct to get there. He staggers off, feet bleeding and bare-chested, through the last of the millennium crowds. The revellers he passes thinks he has had an ultra good night of it. They blow party hooters in his face and slap him on the back. When Jesus finally arrives home he climbs into bed  and falls unconscious. When he wakes up he is ill - in the initial throes of junk sickness and getting worse. The book relates seven days of  chronic heroin withdrawal in which a bed-ridden  Jesus, through a series of memories, dreams and hallucinations, relives his life and times...



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