Working Title: "Roulette"
Genre: No idea. Literary?
Main Characters: Cherise, a new chef at Roulette who's quite nervous about her job, although she's a perfectly good gourmet chef already.
Ronald, one of the well-established chefs of the restaurant and (secretly) the one who will poison meals at random, and not necessarily the ones he makes.
Jones, a frequent customer at the restaurant who brought his girlfriend Dinah along this time.
Setting: The kitchen and main dining area of the Roulette restaurant, modern-day-ish. The restaurant serves gourmet food for free, but on occasion, a random meal will be poisoned. Generally, the poisons are matched with foods that will mask the particular flavor or scent. The toxins also range from near-instant death to mild food poisoning.
Plot: Cherise works her first day at the restaurant, while Ronald and Jones do their normal things.
Point of View: Third-person, omniscient.
Nice to see you're back! :) Where were you? At camp?
ReplyDeleteOoh, creepy idea; I like how the food works like Russian Roulette. (Though I have to wonder why anyone would ever go to that restaurant, if there's a chance of them dying from the poison.) Also, cue inevitable flashback to another story you wrote involving bowls being used as a roulette to mask poison... *Sobs and shakes fist*
Vacation.
DeleteI feel like the reasoning is never really explained... That's why the genre feels like it should be weird. Like magical realism, except with general logic messed up instead of natural laws...
Haha, I hadn't thought of that...
Ooh, nice! Where were you.
DeleteThat explanation seems to work, if it's in a fitting genre.
Of course you didn't. When does the evil queen Journey ever think of her poor, suffering subjects and the misery she has caused them? ;)