“When is your next book coming?” asked the lucky reporter out of the thousands that had gathered around the famous author.

“I am sorry to disappoint all my fans and readers but I have decided to retire. So no books from me then. Perhaps they can try reading some other authors, some indeed are very promising,” replied Ralph Anderson.

“So what do you plan to do now?” a voice came.

“I understand that it seems very odd and bookish but now I have decided to lead a quiet and old-fashioned life in the countryside; working in the farms perhaps,” the award-winning author announced to the stunned audience worldwide.

“It is always the same, these authors retire and then return with a ‘Bang!,” someone shouted over the crowd.

“Sorry, but this time it shan’t be so,” Ralph replied,”Nothing can make me change my mind…….nothing can make me get back to writing.”

Little did the author realize the depth of his words. It was indeed ‘nothing’ that got him back to writing.

A week later, Ralph was working along with his friend’s brother and his family in the farm. It was an old place just as scenic countrysides are.It comprised of a small cottage, a sty, a shed, a pen for the chickens and acres of cultivated land. It had been almost 3 days for Ralph pursuing his life’s dream. His friend’s brother, David Scoff, was a very simple man. His family consisting of a mother and her younger son(8) and elder girl(15) were ready to accommodate him in the family. For a writer, such a life is like a boon and for Ralph, it was his life’s ambition. Everything was normal. But it is always these places that the Devil chooses to infect.

Ralph’s day four was unlike the other three days he had spent there. It wasn’t uneventful. The weather was dark even though the old rickety radio had predicted clear skies. Ralph was taking a bath after the long tiresome day he had spent gathering harvested crops. It was evening and the sun was about to go down. All of a sudden there was a blood curdling scream and a foul smell of burning and smoke filled the small house. Ralph dressed up hastily and ran outside to the shed where the entire family had already gathered. What he saw made him very angry, the crop he had helped in harvesting that day was on fire.