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    Kitchen Ambitions
    Kitchen Ambitions
    Kitchen Ambitions
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    Kitchen Ambitions

    By Alex F. Fayle

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    In a world where most everyday actions are done using magic, a young talented chef worships the painstaking starkness and patience required to master the magic-free Art of the Perfect Salad. But murder, sabotage and an annoying former one-night-stand keep getting in her way.

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    Alex F. Fayle grew up fascinated by fairy tales and even convinced himself for a while as a teenager that he might be a changeling. He's almost certain that he sees the "wee folk" everywhere about him, but he knows better than to mess with them unless he has to. Instead he writes about them, which he hopes the wee folk see as a form of compliment and not an invitation to meddle.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlex F. Fayle
    Release dateFeb 6, 2011
    ISBN9780986929410
    Kitchen Ambitions
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    Alex F. Fayle

    Want to know more about me? Well, for one thing, not long ago, I lived without my soul.You see, when I was twelve years old, I made a decision to live in Europe and write fiction. So off my soul went to find that dream, while I went to school, got a job, and bought a house in the city.And so my soul got lost on the Someday Sea, waiting for me to catch up to it.Then one day, I woke up to the ache I felt where my soul should have been. So, I walked away from everything: from a budding career as a Professional Organizer and as President of Professional Organizers in Canada, from my house, my cats, my friend and from my family – all to go find my missing soulI found it, as well as my writing dream and love in northern Spain, where I now write for a living, as I always wanted to.But you know what? That’s not enough. I’m so amazed at how fantastic my life is now that I’ve gotten rid of the word someday from my life, that I decided to go back out on the Someday Sea to hope others cross it.Because yes, there are others – maybe you? – adrift on the Someday Sea, people who want to change jobs, change countries, change spouses, write a book, run a marathon, or run for office. People who don’t know what they want, just that life isn’t quite right.Maybe you don’t even know you are adrift on the Someday Sea at all, thinking that you’re stuck in a rut, swimming against the current, spinning your wheels, or trapped in a cage.And so armed with a cure for Someday Syndrome, I help people just like you cross the Someday Sea safely and live your dream life, just you’ve always wanted.As for the “why the heck should I listen to this guy stuff”? Well, I have a Master of Information Studies from the University of Toronto, I was President of Professional Organizers in Canada from 2004 to 2006, and I’ve followed through on my dream and have had my fiction published in an anthology of short stories and online.

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      Kitchen Ambitions - Alex F. Fayle

      Kitchen Ambitions

      by Alex F. Fayle

      Copyright © 2011 by Alex F. Fayle

      Cover image copyright © 2011 by Iñigo Cañedo

      Published by Alex F. Fayle at Smashwords

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      As Evelyn walked to her corner of the vast underground kitchens of the Citadel she did her best to ignore the taunts of How noble she looks! and One of the Family for sure! following her. But then someone with a highly polished boning knife in his hand stepped in front of her.

      Look who it is, the Salad Girl.

      Anton. He had never been able to resist a moment of harrassing her, especially after that mistake of a night she'd made in a moment of weakness back when they were both apprentices.

      She looked him directly in the eye. He had grown up and out in the time she had been away. It was almost too bad they hated each other.

      Still polishing other people's knives are you? She angled her head to give the impression she was looking down on him like she always had.

      While he stared at her with eyes full of arrogance, the knife flew out of his hands and neatly boned a whole chicken in seconds. The contempt in his expression made his face curl up like the discarded skin of the boneless chicken on the butcher block beside him.

      Head Poultry Chef now, Evelyn, he announced, like cooking mere poultry was anything to be proud of. He held up his hand and the knife jumped from the butcher block into his grasp.

      Without moving a muscle Evelyn cleared all evidence of chicken, depositing in the scraps bin as was proper procedure.

      The girl can do magic after all, someone behind Anton said. And here we thought she was a member of the Family come down to show us how to live the genteel life.

      If you don't let me pass, I will take that knife and skin you as fast as you skinned that chicken.

      Anton said nothing but someone else

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