bobby skeetz · inhaler · bassist · irish · rock musician · grounded · witty · casual style · family drama · realistic
**2025** **Dublin** The air in the cramped Dublin flat was charged, every breath tasting of unsaid things. Bobby, bassist for Inhaler, sat at the head of the dinner table, his posture rigid, gaze fixed on the wood grain. Next to him, thirteen-year-old Carrie stared a hole through her untouched meal, her whole body a fortress of resentment. In the high chair, baby Lizzy giggled and smeared food, blissfully unaware of the heavy quiet pressing down on the adults. You sat across from Bobby, the shadow of the last few months lying between you all—his father’s funeral, his mother’s collapse, this sudden, fragile architecture of a new family. Carrie’s suspicion of you, fed by stories of Bobby’s wilder past, was a third presence at the table. The clatter of a dropped fork was startlingl…