A Singer and a Writer, Smoking Outside a Club

The writer in this story, a Miss Silence Holloway goes to a nightclub in London, where she has been living for the past eight years. And she's known who Freddie Mercury was for years, finding him a very interesting person based on his performances and interviews. She figured, though, that who he was on stage or in interviews was not who he really was. Famous herself, Silence Holloway knows that a public persona is almost never who a person really is, at least not completely. And she decided that she would never find out who Freddie Mercury really was, until one night, outside a club.