Flash Fiction Prompt: From Juice Boxes to Justice: The Vigilante Vixen

By day she’s a carpool queen, by night she’s the vigilante vixen. But what happens when her husband, the police captain, hunts her down?

✍️ Flash Fiction Prompt

First Line (grab hold):

By 9:00 a.m., she’d dropped the kids, nailed her Zumba routine, and choked out two sparring partners at Brazilian jujitsu.

190-word Prompt Paragraph:

Karen Walters looked like every other suburban mom on the school run—coffee thermos in hand, SUV filled with crumbs, and Spotify blasting kid playlists. But after the minivan doors slammed shut, her day shifted gears. At the rec center, she danced through Zumba, a mask of normalcy. In the gym’s back room, she rolled with black belts until her lungs burned. And then came the real work. The alleys behind the strip mall weren’t patrolled nearly enough. The dealers knew it, the kids paid for it, and Karen had no patience left. With her jujitsu grip and steel resolve, she became what the precinct whispered about: The Vigilante Vixen. Headlines painted her as reckless. The streets called her a hero. And her husband—Captain Tom Walters—was under pressure to bring her in. Every night, Tom returned home drained, venting about the vigilante’s latest strike. Every night, Karen listened, silent, hiding bruises beneath long sleeves. She was the ghost in his investigation, the justice he couldn’t see. And every day, after carpool, she wondered how long she could keep it up before Tom caught both the vigilante and his wife.

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❓ Three Questions for Writers

1. What drives Karen more—the safety of her community or the thrill of living a double life?
2. How will Captain Walters react when he discovers the vigilante is his own wife?
3. Can Karen balance motherhood, marriage, and midnight justice without losing it all?