One day the Little Red Hen finds a pen in the barnyard and decides to write a book and find an agent, editor, and publisher.She wants to sell it at Ducks a Billion and Barns and Nibble bookstores. This hard working chicken embarks on a writing career with zany results. A humorous fable about the publishing industry for writers. This piece first appeared in a writer's magazine and is one of David Davis's (writing as Tom F. Twain) best.