Can't Be Too Careful Published at Enoia Review

Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash

Over the summer, I sent three flash fictions to Eunoia Review. To my surprise, they accepted all of them. So I had three flashes published in quick succession. 

The first one, "Can't Be Too Careful," came out the same generative workshop as my story "Inheritance" that was published in Microfiction Monday. 

The prompt was a photo of an old woman wearing a helmet next to a girl who was putting on a helmet, with a theme of overprotection. And somehow the first line that came to mind was "Grandma lives in a glass house." I don't know if it's because you might realistically need a helmet in a glass house, or because overprotectiveness is one step away from paranoia. It was just where my mind started. So that's where I started my story. Though I don't always (or even usually) keep the first sentence I write as the first sentence in the story, I did this time. 

A hundred people can look at the same picture and write a hundred different stories inspired by it, because every writer's mind goes to a different place. 

My thanks to writer Meg Pokrass who provided the prompt.