[Note: This story only reflects my tremendous admiration for Miss Turner. She is one of the greatest singers ever, and one of the strongest people (mentally) on the planet.]
I was just finishing some minor repair work on my house when I heard the sound.
I live in a deserted area by choice. My family is one of the wealthiest on the planet, and I grew up in Boston living a life of luxury as a young man. My father insisted that finishing prep school should not be considered enough work for one lifetime (if I wanted to inherit), so I went to medical school and got full training as a doctor. Already I knew I didn't like the pretentiousness of the "lifestyle of the rich and famous", so I accepted a job as a doctor in a public hospital in Boston's poor area. 4 years later, the hospital went under.
"What are you going to do now, Alexander?" my family asked me when I came home that evening. "I have an idea," I said. "It requires the following to happen..."
1 month later, I had $20 million in the bank and was living in Pullman, Washington, while my house was being built. My sisters and brothers thought I was nuts, having "sold" my share of the inheritance for $20 million instead of getting $500 million as my piece when dad eventually would kick it. I didn't need the $500 million, and just wanted enough so that I wouldn't need to work for wages if I didn't want to. I was abandoning most of modern life and returning to a simpler time. The house I was building, on a dirt road in a forested glade 45 minutes from Pullman, would be 5 miles from the nearest neighbor. It would have a television (with satellite dish), a video-game console (PlayStation 2, naturally) and a large refrigerator with separate freezer. They would be the only modern things in the house. Not connected to electricity, I had 4 large generators in the basement with plenty of fuel stocked to generate power: that avoided the problem of power lines coming down in one of eastern Washington's blizzards. I didn't even have a phone.
I did, however, bring my medical supplies with me. I also had a rifle (for self-defense and the occasional deer for fresh venison) and my pickup truck (for trips into town to restock.)
The sound that broke my concentration from fixing a leak in the bathtub was a car approaching. Very few cars passed this way. I applied the last bit of sealant and stepped outside. The road was icy due to a blizzard/ice storm in the morning: it was a beautiful early afternoon, but driving conditions were still dangerous. The car, a beautiful black Ferrari convertible, was having trouble maintaining control. The driver, a dark-skinned woman, was trying to reduce her speed to a safe amount, but on the ice the brakes weren't gripping. I watched in horror as the car went into a skid, then spun and smashed into a tree. It instantly burst into flame as thick black smoke filled the car and the air.