Mar 30, 2009
Tales By Tom, the podcast on Thomas M. Cagley Sr.’s fiction
continues with the fourth installment of the novella “Even
the Day of My Wedding.”
The story of Even the Day of My Wedding so far is as follows: At a dinner in Paris, Morris Lasker, who is a Holocaust survivor, agrees to tell his story to a stranger, Robert Karrigan. A month later, while Robert is in market, they meet in Morris’ New York apartment. Morris talks and Robert listens. At the end, Robert hears Morris tell him, as an afterthought, about a girl he met after the war while they were both in a Displaced Persons camp. He was 19 and she, Edith or Dita Hersch, was 17. They fell in love and wanted to get married but decide to wait until both could come to America. She arrives in 1947, he in 1949. In the meantime, with no word from Morris, she thinks he’s forgotten her and she marries a man and moves to southern New Jersey. Morris is sure she is still waiting and arrives five days after her marriage. They do not connect, and each goes their own way.
Back home in Baton Rouge, Robert, who is a hopeless romantic and an incurable optimist, has thought about where Dita might be and decides to try to find her --- with scant information and that almost 40 years old, with money he doesn’t really have at the time, against his wife’s more practical wishes, without Morris’ knowledge --- somewhere in the huge United States of America.
Chapters 7, 8, and 9 tell you how he made out on his 250,000,000 to one shot, about an interesting fortune cookie and --- an empty envelope.
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I encourage you to contact me as I read this and other stories by email at talesbytom@gmail.com or by voicemail at 1 206 339 5456.
All rights are reserved on the stories I publish here. Contact me if you’d like to use or republish anything included in the podcast.
The story of Even the Day of My Wedding so far is as follows: At a dinner in Paris, Morris Lasker, who is a Holocaust survivor, agrees to tell his story to a stranger, Robert Karrigan. A month later, while Robert is in market, they meet in Morris’ New York apartment. Morris talks and Robert listens. At the end, Robert hears Morris tell him, as an afterthought, about a girl he met after the war while they were both in a Displaced Persons camp. He was 19 and she, Edith or Dita Hersch, was 17. They fell in love and wanted to get married but decide to wait until both could come to America. She arrives in 1947, he in 1949. In the meantime, with no word from Morris, she thinks he’s forgotten her and she marries a man and moves to southern New Jersey. Morris is sure she is still waiting and arrives five days after her marriage. They do not connect, and each goes their own way.
Back home in Baton Rouge, Robert, who is a hopeless romantic and an incurable optimist, has thought about where Dita might be and decides to try to find her --- with scant information and that almost 40 years old, with money he doesn’t really have at the time, against his wife’s more practical wishes, without Morris’ knowledge --- somewhere in the huge United States of America.
Chapters 7, 8, and 9 tell you how he made out on his 250,000,000 to one shot, about an interesting fortune cookie and --- an empty envelope.
I have created a Facebook page for my podcasting and writing. If you are on Facebook come over and friend me at http://bit.ly/18j52E
I encourage you to contact me as I read this and other stories by email at talesbytom@gmail.com or by voicemail at 1 206 339 5456.
All rights are reserved on the stories I publish here. Contact me if you’d like to use or republish anything included in the podcast.