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The Dirty Works of Shane Levene
Welcome to the new online home of the outsider writer Shane Levene. You'll find writing here from all his projects as well as some exclusive texts that can be found nowhere else. Thanks as ever for your loyalty and support. please, if you enjoy the writing, like it and link it and share it... THat's the single most help anyone can give just now. Let the atrocities begin... Depravity Spits Back too. X
memoires of a heroinhead
 A change of light... A ghost of time... an old familiar dance that has you dance some more... But just what moved over the dying sun? |  Crack induced conversation as President Kim Jong Un parades his arsenal of missiles for Western eyes. |  The author gives notice of leave to his French landlord. The more he writes the worse it gets... X |  A walking journal of a writer's last days in France |
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 A descent into the madness of love and obsession. X |  The authoring does some poeming. X |  A litany of foulness and vomit and healing. SICK, we were so fucking sick. X |  Surrounding the telling of the author's journey to buy a packet of discount frozen paella are various tales of poverty and ingenuity... |
 The author relates his first summer in Lyon and the heroin and beauty and sadness of the Cours Gambetta |  The past comes in through the backdoor as the local downcasts arrive at and leave their place of congregation |  A tirade against France and all things French. Originally written to read at L'Olympia in Paris before the Libertines reunion gig. Never finished in time and was much too long anyway. They got a gut load of SICK instead. X |  The author makes it through a beautiful and terrible storm. X |
 The 3rd and final part of the Trey saga. An American foreign language student hooks up with the author in Lyon, France. X |  The first installment of the Trey saga. A young American foreign exchange student blows into town. |  A missed opportunity at an ATM machine makes for a desperate afternoon to get money to score... X |  The trauma of beautiful things. X |
 The author takes an evening stroll around the horrors and sadness of a lonely town. X |  While awaiting the results of an HIV test a young addict gets to discussing junk, disease, harm-reduction and the pitfalls of intravenous drug use with an older, dying in-patient. |  An early precursor of Le Desespoir de la France. The author feels the prison of France and is diseased with nostalgia and longing for home. |  The author watches the world as he drinks methadone and coffee and the carousel turns |
 Three pieces about loss following the death of The Man I Called Dad |  The honeymoon period of heroin addiction has worn off. Welcome sickness, methadone clinics, the diseased and dying... |  3 children experiencing deep poverty show their father what they most want |  A middle aged junkie dies and rumours of her death abound |
 During a short hiatus from junk the author takes stroll around the local market |  The author has made it home to London. A boiling pot of cabbage reminds him of the sea. X |  The author and his mother are given the run around while scoring heroin and crack cocaine. |  The author's Bulgarian drug dealer shows off his bullet wounds. X |
 Mr Peter Doherty comes to Lyon and we were angels for a day. X * See if you can spot the weird line that doesn't work. It has a nice story behind it. Ask and I may tell |  The telling of the murder of my Father at the hands of Britain's most infamous serial killer Dennis Nilsen... |  The Author's mother makes a drunken call to her exiled son. X |  Have no idea what the hell this text is. If it's good I wrote it and if it's crap it's someone else's. X |
 The author goes on a walk through the slums of Naples. X |  A text about the intentional passing on of blood borne viruses by intravenous drug users. |  Young lives try to escape the horrors of a slum housing estate. X |  The author takes revenge on a scheming junk buddy. X |
 A series of letters to an old friend. X |  From hanging off a tower block to crawling under a police van, the author reminds himself why he must never drink again |  The author goes to hospital in France suffering toothache and gets detained for his own safety. X |  A very old piece of writing on the colourful life of my stepfather |
 A short tale of Psychosis... X |  Young lives come together through poverty and abuse... X |  Those shadows that haunt the conscious mind of the existential. |  The old school bully gets bullied by life |
 As the war in Afghanistan rages away its effects are felt on the streets of London by way of a devastating heroin drought |  An old email exchange concerning the original Memoires of a Heroinhead site. |  A group of junkies make up a congregation while scoring junk in the early hours. The author comes face to face with another part of himself |  Toxic heroin hits a junkie called Thinman. A tale of wound botulism and heroin. X |
 I forget what this text is about so it's probably not worth the virtual paper that it's not written on... |  The tale of a bloated culture descending into greed and perversity. X |  The author gets sacked from his managerial role after his directors find him naked in his mum's bra and a syringe in his leg |  The very first Memoires post. X |
 During a train journey from Paris to Lyon, the author recounts how he lost his teeth. X |  The author's journey into intravenous heroin addiction | The author lets loose a tirade of abuse at his foreign captor. X |  Something goes bump in the night when young thieves head off to rob a house in the country |
 The author manages to quit heroin for almost 3 days. X |  An early precursor to Le Desespoir de La France. French bureacracy and culture begin to wear heavy on the author. X |  A flawed piece of writing that narrates the murder of an upstairs neighbour. |
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