Missed My Respite

How to Make this Charlie's Project

My Grandfather served in France. The Solomon’s owned the Verona diner, and the Red Ranch, which would eventually become known as Harpoon Willy’s I lived around the corner from there for almost a quarter of a century.

I never met Marvin, his father, or Charlie Kusher. I do not recall ever being to Verona, NJ. In all the years I worked in West Orange for Bob Cohen, I never did get to see where my father grew up. I might just yet, I could write of the expense as research if and when we get a whale behind this project.

I know that Laska deserves her moment. I know there needs to be a scene set in the Better Duck Inn. I know Uncle Joe, needs to bring that boat in Barnegat Inlet, with the nephews gutting blue fish aft, amidst a mass of trailing gulls.

Charlie is Ambassador Kushner now, between our embassy in Paris, or wherever it is in France, and Long Branch where he is reigning monarch. I have not given how to make this Charlie’s project. But I know the fit is perfect. I just do not know how to get the concept close enough to the Commission to pitch them.

I am open for suggestions.