Misery

A sibling-immigrant pair end up crossing careers and the writer of the two is kidnapped by a psycho-fan, perhaps requiring 'divine' rescue.

A concise short about strange encounters inspired by the exquisite if unusual film Misery (Stephen King). 

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Amlan and Isha grew up in the United States after moving here from Algeria. They lived in a modest house in an area on the East Coast known as Sturbridge-Woods ('SW'). Their parents treated them pretty well, for the most part, but Amlan/Isha were a sibling-pair who grew up with an incredible and unusual sense of shared ambition(s) and dreams. They both wanted to go to great schools, and Isha applied to creative-writing focused schools, while Amlan applied to Ivy League schools. Lo and behold, Amlan was admitted to Dartmouth and Isha to Sarah Lawrence. However, by an odd twist of events, it was Isha who ended up being a working professional of high-salary, a lawyer in fact, while it was Amlan who became a sensitive and liberal-arts oriented writer. Isha loved Amlan's short stories about Christian values, ghost-tales, folklore, and culture-rich fables about strange consciousness. When Amlan won the Pulitzer Prize for his short about a gang of masked ice-hockey team athletes who robbed blood-diamonds from corrupt barons in North America, Isha was there at his awards ceremony to cheer on her suddenly famous older brother. His writing(s) were likened to Dean Koontz and Shel Silverstein, and he always said that he was still inspired by the dense style/method of her younger sister (Isha) and her dark tales about souls in wandering when they were younger and it was she who wanted to be a writer in fact. Now, with this new developed sibling sensibility/relationship, Amlan was about to experience something much more sinister than his shared feelings with his darling sister Isha.

That something 'sinister' came in the form of a wacko fan who simply adored Amlan's short-stories and decided to stalk/track/haunt him. This fanatic-fan was a New England resident named March who read all of Amlan's stories and decided that his magic was in his 'uncanny' ability to cast the delicate human condition(s) through the complicated lens of language arts, illusion, setting, and mood-enhancement(s). In fact, March considered Amlan something like a 'god' in the world of creative-writing and desperately hoped that he'd agree to write a new story...about him (March)! March learned that Amlan was traveling to New England for a writer's fair and followed him there and then hit him on the head with a bar while he was walking to his parked/rented car in the snow and then dragged his body to his own car and drove off, late at night, to take Amlan to his secluded forest house in Vermont. The area where Amlan was 'kidnapped' by this psycho-fan named March was an otherwise idyllic area in that part of the United States and otherwise didn't see much deep forms of deranged crime(s) or strange occurrences. This would be the first time such an 'event' would take place in an otherwise 'nice' place like the area in New England where the acclaimed (online) short-story writer would find himself completely taken by something much more sinister than his inspirational surroundings.

March, the psycho, kept Amlan tied up in a room in his secluded Vermont forest house that snowy winter. He fed him, bathed him, dressed him, and tended to his personal needs, but he never let him loose from that room where Amlan remained a hostage/prisoner. Amlan didn't dare ask March the rationale of this depressing kidnapping, since the psycho was simply insistent on giving his daily speeches about why he wanted to keep Amlan the acclaimed (online) short-story writer 'all' to himself. Finally, near the end of that snowy dead of winter, March told Amlan that if he hoped to escape or return home (ever), he'd have to write a new fresh short-story...about March! Amlan, frightened for his life, agreed to start the project and fashioned a loosely biographical small-tale about a psychologically troubled fan who yearns more than anything to be an acclaimed writer like one of his college friends whom he envies with murderous eyes. March loved the story and couldn't wait for it to be published online, which it eventually was, but it didn't win any awards. This frustrated the psychotic March who decided he'd try to slit Amlan's throat, but just as he tried to do so, Amlan grabbed the knife from March's very hands and returned the approach with a death-strike to the poor psycho's throat, rendering him debilitated and eventually bleeding to death on the floor of the room where he kept Amlan prisoner. Isha showed up at the house just one day later, as Amlan was recuperating/recovering, having used her detective-skill(s) to deduce that the recent 'short-fiction' her missing older brother wrote after vanishing from the world was 'secretly' some distress-signal sent by Amlan who'd obviously wrote that story about the psychotic kidnapper who held him hostage and most likely found out about his New England visit from a cyber-story about the writer's fair in that area! When Isha asked him, "Do you regret fame, sweetheart?" Amlan looked her in the eye and calmly replied, "It's the writing that saved me this time, Isha my hero."

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)