Chef Carl Thorne-Thomsen is hoping for a happy beginning of his Story

Chef Carl Thorne-Thomsen has long, slender fingers — the kind of fingers not meant to be cramped and bent over a keyboard, hunting and pecking for letters, when they’re capable of wielding a chef’s knife with blinding speed.

But he didn’t know that when he was enrolled at Wichita State University, studying to get his MFA in creative writing. He knew something wasn’t right, but he just couldn’t put his finger on it.