Three Minute Fiction

A Saint And A Criminal
by Lauri Anderson

The girls father alway tells a joke about a sain and a criminal. She is one while her brother is the other. She did not know which one she was until her brother ran his car into someones living room and killing a women. He did not talk to his family or look them in the eye until a few days later when they visit him in jail and he is the bother she has always known, because he was acting different before the accident. She did not say which one she is but I think that she thinks she might be the criminal because the brother is changing. Maybe not so much as a saint but he is changing his life for the better.