SUN SONGS
Wildwood Stories
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From "Last Love," a selection from "SUN SONGS: Wildwood Stories":
From their condo window, in the late afternoon, the winter beach was soft and desolate under a rare wreath of new snow. He still called it their condo, and thought of it that way. He turned from the window and looked at his reflection, absently pleased that his tuxedo trousers still fit, wondering if he could still manage a bow tie, which was something she had always done. He fumbled until his fingers remembered.
The car was chilly almost until he reached the inlet at Second Avenue and he parked and looked at the water. The waves were running fast on one another and the first pale streaks of evening had reached the horizon. Across the broad sweeping waterscape, the clouds became a pastel palette and seabirds flew low, drawn homeward by the late sun. It was always her favorite time there.
Offshore, the day slid slowly away, and when he reached the facility the sky was a lovely, florid bruise. The director, an attractive young woman in severe black-framed spectacles, met him in the reception area.
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SHARE THE SEASHORE MAGIC!
Bob Ingram's "SUN SONGS: Wildwood Stories" speaks in short story form to anyone who has ever felt the pull of the Jersey Shore. From a horse loose on the Wildwood Boardwalk to a comeuppance for Bozo the water clown to a lifeguard's love story, "SUN SONGS" is tinged with Ingram's version of magical realism in bringing to life that most unique seashore resort: Wildwood By-the-Sea.
Emotions from the exuberance of a new season to the bittersweet aftermath of a spouse's death are all part of Ingram's sandy rhapsody centered on the alternative reality known as Wildwood.
So put on your flip-flops and sing along with "SUN SONGS!"
About the Author
Bob Ingram has been a writer/journalist/editor for almost 45 years. His work has appeared in Philadelphia Magazine, Atlantic City Magazine, South Jersey Magazine, the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Weekly, Atlantic City Weekly, Philly Arts, the South Philadelphia Review, the Cape May County Herald, the Wildwood Sun-By-the-Sea, The Drummer, the Plain Dealer, the Philadelphia Free Press, the South Street Star (which he co-founded), and the Fishtown Star, among others. He has also co-written, co-produced, and narrated a documentary film about the Boardwalk in Wildwood, NJ, called "Boardwalk: Greetings from Wildwood By-the-Sea" which has been shown frequently on PBS. This book, "SUN SONGS: Wildwood Stories," is a compilation of some of his short fiction, all of which -- except two stories -- originally appeared in the Wildwood Sun By-the-Sea newspaper, thus the "SUN SONGS" title. "Wildwood is an endless source of material," Ingram says. "The seashore has been in my blood since my childhood summers at my grandparents' cottage in Seaside Heights, NJ, where the Boardwalk first became a magical place for me. Even though I'm at the shore the year around now, every day is still like a vacation." Bob Ingram lives in Burleigh, NJ, five minutes across the causeway from Five Mile Island, which includes North and West Wildwood, Wildwood Crest, and Wildwood. "There's nowhere else I'd rather be," he says, "and I hope these stories demonstrate that."