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Dreams of Asbury Park
by Noobi
Is there a genetic predetermination concerning dreams? If the answer is
no, then why do people whose recent ancestors migrated from the once
fabled New Jersey shore have nearly identical dreams?
Miles Sturdish has never been to New Jersey and has never heard of the
recording artist Bryce Swingstien, yet he dreams of a decrepit, former
seaside amusement center left abandoned before giant tsunami waves
rushing in for the final deluge. "I don't really know where that place is..."
but his fiancé Misha often awakes him from a nightmare in which he
moans, "Asbury.... Asbury Park..."
Family research turned up a biological great-grandfather, Captain "Lucky"
O'Smile (born Orville Shkutz), who once commanded an auction stand and
later a fortune and weight-guessing concession at Asbury Park, NJ.
Lucky was reported to have contributed to the delinquency of many young
ladies leaving a trough of unexpected pregnancies among frolickers at the
seashore during the Eisenhower administration. Named an enemy of the
United States by J. Edgar Hooper of the F.B.I. he was chased by masked
agents into a fun house which was purposely set on fire. His charred
remains were interred into the Wobbly Building which was dynamited into
oblivion fifty years later to make way for condominiums which were either
never built or never sold. Today, those condominiums that were built are
home to many exotic fish that inhabit the Jersey reefs.
How many more dreamers of Asbury Park are out there waiting to be
discovered and have their dreams foretold by tales of the past.
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