All of a sudden he begins feeling the effects of heroin it appears that his good deed has been rewarded with 'the immaculate fix'.

The morphine immediately alleviates the young man's pain. Danny selflessly administers his morphine to the young man. Danny offers to call an ambulance, but soon realizes that the paramedics will not come as they believe the young man is faking illness to obtain opiates. Distracted, he follows the sound of the groaning across the hall to find a young man suffering from kidney stones. As he prepares to inject the morphine, he hears groaning coming from the next room. With his morphine tablet secreted away, Danny rents a room for two dollars. The doctor is suspicious but gives Danny a quarter of a grain of morphine free of charge. When he reaches the doctor’s house he pretends to be suffering from facial neuralgia. Unable to find heroin anywhere Danny decides to visit a doctor with the hopes of obtaining some morphine. He finds a buyer who gives him three dollars but also informs him that the local heroin dealer has been arrested. Disgusted, he discards the legs and tries to find a buyer for the suitcase.

There he finds that the case contains two severed human legs. He makes off with the case and takes it to an abandoned park to examine its contents.

After an unsuccessful attempt to break into a parked car, he discovers an unattended suitcase sitting in a doorway. Hoping to make enough money to buy his next hit of heroin, he scours the streets looking for something to steal. On Christmas Day, penniless and withdrawing from opiates, Danny emerges from a 72-hour stay in a police holding cell. It was later adapted into short claymation film and a spoken word version was performed through a collaboration between William S. It originally appears in the 1989 collection Interzone and on the 1993 album Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales. 'The Junky's Christmas' is a short story by William S.

Junky by William S. Burroughs