KEY ELEMENTS: nyctophobia, nightingale, thatch, raffia, loneliness, fear SYNOPSIS: The protagonist was an orphan who knew not the real story of his parents. He grew up under the care of his nanny in a thatched mud house built in a lonely mysterious forest far away from the other inhabitants of the land. His nanny brought him up in superstitions and beliefs that were out of reality. After the demise of the nanny, he believed living alone in the lonely forest hut was his fate. Nevertheless, the feeling of loneliness in addition with the excessive superstitious beliefs induced fear and nyctophobia that resulted in depression. He made moves to commit suicide but the fear of death gave him an option to find his way out of loneliness where he met love. Consequentially, he realized that there were people out there willing to offer love in contrast to what he was made to believe and away from family which he had none. #SupremeMeFictionWritingContest