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The Long Way Round the Fjord
Hålvik is forty-one people in February.
- ~296 min (estimated)
- 65217 words
- 110 scenes
- 11 branch points
- 5 endings
36 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
It is a row of nine houses and twelve holiday cabins on the south shore of Storfjorden at 63° 26′ N, eleven kilometres from a shop, a post office and a health centre in Ørhus, and one hundred and forty from anything with a ward. The sun came back over Blåfjell on the twentieth of January and has been back seventeen days. On the seventeenth of January, the seventeenth of January, and twice in the nine days after it, four women were found drowned on the floor of the same room: the white house at the head of the quay, built 1863, standing on pine joists seven hundred millimetres above mean high water, with a plank door at the seaward end that opens onto three steps and the fjord. The four were strangers to each other and tenants of the same owner, who has never seen the house since 1998. The village has a rule about it. Ragnhild Tveit, who has run the shop for twenty-six years, states it to
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- A village agreement by custom that overrides an individual's living, enforced by nobody and obeyed by everybody
- A woman of 27 who is given a ritual she was not told the cost of, and is damaged by it
- A name in a public record, in a case file, and in a national database, and a family that has to be told
- Fictional village, fjord, house, people, and documents
Cast
- S Signe Vatne protagonist, fylkesveterinær for Vågsund, the pathologist who signs the four veterinary reports and who takes the samples no portrait yet
- H Hallvard Vatne husband, captain for Vestflyg, the argument in the room no portrait yet
- R Ragnhild Tveit shopkeeper and postmist, the person who states the rule first, in the same words, for twenty-six years no portrait yet
- E Einar Sandvik harbourmaster, the man who went into that room four times, and who has had a key to it for fifteen years no portrait yet
- B Bente Hovden police constable, the only officer in the district, the four files and the four empty boxes no portrait yet
- O Oda Sætre postmist, three weeks in the job, the introduction on the sixteenth of March no portrait yet
- J Joakim Rise cage hand, three winters in Hålvik, forty-one thousand followers, a cracked phone no portrait yet
- G Gunnar Vold the man who shot a harbour seal on Sandvika in November 2015 and fed it from a bucket every week for ten years no portrait yet
- L Liv Bakken the only person who says the word, once, indoors, in hour four, and then keeps one thing back no portrait yet