The Blood Gospels Audio Script of a Novel written and spoken by Robert Locke © 2012 Robert Locke 916-456-6991
[email protected] Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. The Gospel According to John 6.54 The Bible, The New Testament 2 DISK 1 — (81:46 minutes) Blood and Eternity ANGIE: (her voice coming up out of darkness, young, exuberant, a little shrill in her eagerness to begin their stories) Okay, okay, for me it starts ... FAYE: (her voice coming up under Angie’s voice, hesitant, not nearly so sure where they are headed) “I am Faye ... I can’t ... but ... “ ANGIE: (overlapping) ... Mom ... hey, Mom! MARK: (his voice coming over the both of them, gruff) Angie, one at a time. Let your mother go first. ANGIE: ... Dad!!!! MARK: Angie, let your mother go first!” FAYE: ... Angie, please dear, I can’t concentrate.” ANGIE: Oh! Tsssk! (sighs) Lo que sea, lo que quieren. CONSTANTIN: (his soft, bitter laughter floating up beneath their overlapping voices) The noise ... the noise ... can we not, perhaps, begin with less noise?” FAYE: (more determined, but still soft) Very well then. Yes, I am Faye. I can’t ... but think ... that of the four of us you will want to hear first from me —oh, that beginning is weak, far too weak; you will want to think me stronger than that— but a beginning, you understand, you must understand ... a start to it all ... is not ... easy ... is not easily ... wrought —oh, you will think me tedious, they all do, but— I will start again.