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“Raphael was right to destroy all the evidence of who he was as a little kid. Nobody wants to be reminded of what they could have been. If there was a time machine invented and we could all travel back … Read More

“Break the water. Make a ripple once in a while.”  – Laura Marling, “Divine” (2015) IFB’s Quotations Page, General Index

“Few who build a base camp have no ambitions to reach the summit.” – Norman Mailer, Excerpted from Oswald’s Tale, 1995

If you were from or of the Wildwood scene during the early 1990s, chances were you knew of an urban legend involving a whistling man who haunted midnight sands beneath the boardwalk. There were variations on this theme with each … Read More

10. Mr. Holmes What if the world’s most captivating investigator began to lose his capacity for recall? 9. 99 Homes This is what happened after The Big Short. 8. Creed What does it say about the motion picture industry when … Read More

Here is a list of things that generally occur during the period leading up to and through a seasonal storm in Wildwood, New Jersey: aware tourists strip all of their bathing suits from railings, chartered boats begin to bottleneck the … Read More

I was sitting on a worn-out carpet, leaning my back against a bed frame for lack of any chair. I was reading a Rolling Stone cover story about the final episode of Seinfeld. This story’s layout featured the show’s primary … Read More

“Creative nonfiction is a term that is currently having its day. When I was in college, anyone who put those two words together would have been looked on as a comedian or a fool. Today, Creative Nonfiction is the name … Read More

Rene Ouellet was a Canadian transsexual who had disappeared in June of 1992, almost immediately after he had begun working as a female impersonator at a bar called the Fun Spot in West Wildwood. I had been living on the … Read More