It’s Friday Fictioneers time! The challenge is to write a 100-word story in response to a weekly photo prompt chosen by our host Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Follow the link to her blog for more information. Thank you to all who take the time to read, like, or comment.

PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

Cain

The driver responsible for the death of schoolgirl Stephanie Woods was still unidentified. The papers used words like ‘coward’, ‘monster’, and ‘heartless scum’. Cain didn’t see any of those things. He saw a promising student who had just been accepted into university; a teenager, not yet a man, who had made a terrible, life-defining mistake; someone so overcome with guilt and grief that he had barely slept in three weeks. Most importantly, he saw the little boy he had promised to always protect. He saw his brother.

Unblinking, Cain met the officer’s gaze.

“I’m here to confess to a hit-and-run.”