Literally going insane over title selection

I know what you mean! I'm an English teacher, and I often tell my students that their essay titles should relate to their topics (duh). I tell them that an easy way to make sure of this is to use only words found in the essay itself. I think the same can be said for fiction writing. I like my titles to come from lines/phrases in the story.

I do that, too, along with searching for idioms.

In a story this short, create a title that helps add clarity and also sounds cool as hell.

I agree.  There have been a few times where the title just came to me and felt perfect.  This happened to be one of those times.  But more often than not, it's a super struggle.  I find titles to be either super easy or super difficult.  There is no in between

I have to admit that I too used the absolute first title that popped into my head - and it shows, haha, I just had not a brain cell left at that point to come up with anything better! I kind of smirked as I chose it, because I knew I was making an iffy choice by using it. I mean, she did make an ill-fated choice. But it's not very clever as a title