Review: Being A Chef For A Fat Guy Can Be Very Dangerous!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 21, 2013
I really enjoy reading Dani Amore's short storys. They are tightly written with just enough character and scene description to allow your imagination to fill in the blanks. The visuals I got from this one were at once hilarious and macabre.The scene opens some where in Florida where two unfortunates are found kneeling on a wooden ledge in the basement of a warehouse. Splashing noises and and the smell of rotting meat emanate from the water below. The two are a young teen and his father, a restaurant chef.A squad of similarly black suited mean looking men arrive to surround a huge man who confronts the two kneeling captives demanding to know "which one of you is the junky and which one is the thief?"The younger one quickly confesses the he is the one. But the older man realizes that the fat man is Diego Villanueava, a Detroit crime boss. He begs for him to spare their lives. When the crime boss learns that the older man is a well known chef he decides to spare their lives but keep them captives.Soon Diego arranges a meeting with Machete, the young Colombian leader of a vicious drug cartel. Diego adds a generous bonus to his regular payment requesting a special favor from Machete. He wants to retire to Miami.Machete makes an offer to Diego. He has Diego weigh in. He does and is found to be 427lbs. Machete's deal is that Diego must lose 28 lbs in one month before he can retire to Miami.Diego agrees and then recalls the Old Chef to his home and explains the deal to him. There is one exception. Diego explains that if the chef 's meals do not cause him to lose 28 lbs in one month, he will kill both his son and him.Now this is a real problem. How do you plan and prepare three meals a day for a fat man who loves to eat but hates to exercise? But the fat man must lose a pound a day or you and your son won't wake up next month!Dani does it again. How does she think these things up? What a fun read.