{"id":1776,"date":"2023-09-23T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T08:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2023-09-23T08:20:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T08:20:23","slug":"the-krill-bay-mysteries-chapter-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/the-krill-bay-mysteries-chapter-1\/1776\/","title":{"rendered":"The Krill Bay Mysteries: chapter 1."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Krill Bay Mysteries: chapter 1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brian knew a good deal about Eric\u2019s life story from the first research interview. What he didn\u2019t know was that Eric\u2019s life (but definitely not his story) was going to reach its final destination in one hour and thirty minutes. Nor did Brian know that Eric\u2019s account of his past in the next forty-five minutes would contain (if anyone cared to listen and adequately interpret) the answer to why he died. This, the second interview, began at 2:30 pm Eastern Time in a small room in Krill Bay\u2019s large central library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Brian pushed across the table a take-away tea from the library\u2019s Red Herring Gull Cafe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGod, this is cat\u2019s piss,\u201d Eric bemoaned good-naturedly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eric had been a musician and still was one of sorts. Albeit he had moved from Madison Square Gardens in the 1990s to a bench with a bottle on the promenade in this New Hampshire fishing town in 2023. This is where Brian \u2013 researching \u201cSudden-life collapses: the role of bad luck and its cultural context\u201d at BU – literally stumbled upon him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBlimey,\u201d Brian intoned (in his jumbled English-Welsh accent) as he slipped on a blue geranium which someone had laid in front of the bench. It\u2019s perhaps worth noting in passing that this bench had been donated to the town ten years ago by a now deceased Miss Elizabeth Evans of Maine who, unbeknownst to Eric, had been one of his biggest fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The library clock ticked away the minutes without Eric realising how precious each of these now were. He began the interview with an account of his childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI always wanted a pet,\u201d he explained wistfully. \u201cBut when I asked my father if we could get a hamster he replied, \u2018have you got a recipe?\u2019 And to this day, I\u2019ve never owned a hamster.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is still time,\u201d Brian replied disinterestedly and, as we know, completely inaccurately. Brian (like Elizabeth Evans) had been a big fan of Eric\u2019s and was keen to get onto the rock and roll years. Eric looked beyond Brian (perhaps beyond the present) at the churning sea. The wind rattled the half-open window, the door into the main library blew open, and the chatter of the neurological diseases support group (which Brian incidentally was a member of) drifted in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, the doctor told me I had a novel disease. I asked him if he meant I read too much\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wave of gentle chuckling in the group was drowned out by the rising cacophony outside the building of \u201cTrump 2024\u201d and \u201cBan drag shows, protect our kids\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFeck\u2019s sake,\u201d Eric snapped, \u201cthey would ban Shakespeare if they could.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m afraid they already have,\u201d Brian sighed. In the mega-crowd, there was one person who (unlike Elizabeth Evans and Brian Wollstonecraft) had never been a big fan of Eric. The wind blew the door shut. At 3:45, the interview finished. Fifteen minutes later (in the gardening section on the ground floor), so did Eric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Krill Bay Mysteries: chapter 1. Brian knew a good deal about Eric\u2019s life story from the first research interview. What he didn\u2019t know was that Eric\u2019s life (but definitely not his story) was going to reach its final destination in one hour and thirty minutes. Nor did Brian know that Eric\u2019s account of his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10158782359051062_103813597863211":"","twitter_1225722811282530305_1225722811282530305":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[695,933],"tags":[963,643,961,10,958,95,8,20,959,607,962,274,345,960,11],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-695","category-music","tag-bay","tag-been","tag-bench","tag-brian","tag-eric","tag-had","tag-he","tag-his","tag-interview","tag-know","tag-krill","tag-library","tag-life","tag-minutes","tag-was"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbrNJE-sE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}