RECIPE FOR MURDER

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RECIPE FOR MURDER

a short story by Mark Kolke

The letter was . . . addressed:

Chef Sven Scrivener

Claim Staker Café

2110 – 2nd Avenue

Whitehorse, Yukon

Y1A 1B9

Dear Chef,

I would like to journey to see you, sir, in the course of seeking employment, in response to your advertisement last week in the Nome Nugget - I would like to be employed as your sous-chef, to assist you and learn your craft, and in this sir, I would be in your debt.  I am young and lack formal training and commercial experience of any kind, but I assure you I am a fine cook.

I have wished to be a chef for some time now. I have made some dishes of my own invention which have pleased some friends and family here, but it is impossible to find a position in this pitiful place. There isn’t a good place to eat for four hundred miles or more and I don’t have the wherewithal to start a place of my own.  And, more than that, I need training before I would dare risk opening a restaurant.

I considered work on a fishing boat or cruise ship – lots of them come through here – but I can’t swim and I get seasick.  I need my feet on firm ground.