Help Me Choose a Cover for My Next Short Story!
Different Isn't Broken
I’m preparing to publish a short story called, Different Isn’t Broken, for Autism Pride Day on June 18th, and I’d love your help choosing a cover.
The flash fiction piece follows a young girl named Lila during a school fire drill. What is a routine event for everyone else quickly becomes overwhelming. Frozen in place, she feels like she’s drowning beneath the noise, lights, and chaos around her. While the rest of the class files out, one teacher stays behind.
At its heart, this story is about something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: how easy it is to judge what we don’t understand, and how powerful it can be when someone chooses patience instead.
Our family is deeply and and beautifully neurodivergent, which certainly shaped this story. But the more I wrote, the more I realized it wasn’t only about neurodivergence. It’s about overwhelm. It’s about grace. It’s about the people who stay beside us when life feels too loud.
The title comes from a simple truth I hope readers take with them:
Different Isn’t Broken.
I’ve narrowed the cover options down to four possibilities, and now I’d love your feedback.
Which cover would make you most likely to stop scrolling and click?
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I’d love to hear why you chose the cover you did. Sometimes the comments are even more helpful than the vote itself.