RE: STACH Short Story Contest #16: 199 words, 10SBD prize pool!
Regret Prison
Josue keeps a secret that eats his thoughts away, his nights become eternal and in the day he bears a burden that he carries on his shoulders. Two years ago that ominous October day he left with friends at the bar, they had fun and drank without control and now being drunk one of his friends came up with a way to earn easy money, they went to a grocery store and surprised the employee with a revolver, the employee struggled with his friend and the gun was shot killing the employee on the spot.
Things should not have gone that way, Joshua thought, he remembered day after day that horrible scene where an innocent person had been killed. He felt imprisoned in his thoughts and one day he decided to turn himself in to the police and tell his story.
Freedom is not only physical, but it is also freedom of heart and thought, without charges of conscience of having harmed others, that is to live free.
It's a tragic story, but I liked it a lot!