r/TwoSentenceSadness • • Oct 21 '23

On Fiction

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r/TwoSentenceSadness is a creative writing fiction subreddit. All stories posted must be assumed to be fictional, even if they aren't.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 8h ago

My aunt passed away 25 years ago. Spoiler

44 Upvotes

Today, I found an unopened tube of her favourite lipstick inside the mirror cabinet of my uncle’s estate.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 8h ago

I took the beating because my mom said only evil deserved to be punished, so when they pummeled me for my birthmark, I didn't run. NSFW

36 Upvotes

I wanted them to keep going.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 22h ago

"I just wanna play without the camera, mama," Aurelia explains to her mother, tears streaming down her cheeks.

365 Upvotes

"Keep crying, the people on the live are eating it up" The mother explains, looking at her daughter through the camera lens, yet somehow not seeing her at all.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 13h ago

I called my grandpas home phone, it said the number was no longer in service

64 Upvotes

I walked away from his gravestone back to the car


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 7h ago

I set my AC to 20°C and drifted off to sleep.

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"Poor guy accidentally set the air conditioning to 2000°C he must have been tired we will remember him by a statue of his rememberance"


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 7h ago

I bump rich guy Cadillac yuh

4 Upvotes

Him whole family wuz cancer and it was the last thing keeping him going bruh


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 18h ago

There's a place within my heart where memory itself becomes inaudible, which exists outside the borders of remorse and regret, where we grieve not over what occurred but over what never happened.

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I decided to name this place the Sepulchre of Supposes: a place where I bury the conditional: if, perhaps, had I, had you, had we.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 1d ago

As a young man I feared dying alone.

66 Upvotes

Now dementia has made my fear come true in a room full of family and friends.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 20h ago

If you think about how long a typical pet lives...

8 Upvotes

... Almost all of the puffles from Club Penguin are by now dead.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 1d ago

For peace of mind given the family history, my parents and I participated in a comprehensive screening at a leading cancer center that evaluates five hundred five genes and other markers strongly associated with inherited cancer risk, and our tests returned clean results.

96 Upvotes

After losing my mother to adenocarcinoma just a year later, the clinic proudly announced their new and improved cancer panel, now testing for five hundred six markers.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 1d ago

Sometimes hope is not enough.

33 Upvotes

I need to see proof and I need more than a promise.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 1d ago

The slow gait of the zombies behind us speeds up as we pound on the door.

86 Upvotes

The father and mother keep the door closed, “I’m sorry, god forgive me girls, but your mother and I can have more children, but we can’t revive ourselves.”


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 2d ago

The truth is, everyone in your life will have a last day with you.

51 Upvotes

And neither of you know when that day is.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 2d ago

"Dad, FUCK- please, just open the fucking door!"

183 Upvotes

I stared up at the bathroom lights, sputtering bile and white foam, and panicked, soundless ‘I love you’s, over and over again.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 2d ago

Most people thought that she was his daughter, but she was really his wife.

533 Upvotes

Marrying her was the only way that he could get her out of her country safely so he could give her to family who would take care of her.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 2d ago

After the cataclysm he slowly shed the trappings of his old life, the keys for a house no longer there, and a wallet for cards he could no longer use.

78 Upvotes

But the phone he could not charge was the hardest, as it contained the photos of his wife and children who no longer lived.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 2d ago

All Alice wanted was her mother to come see her once before she died.

60 Upvotes

What she got was her grandmother, singing softly to her granddaughter as she passed on, crying out for a mother that never wanted or loved her.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 2d ago

The little boy tells me that for his "Make A Wish", he just wants to see his grandpa again.

72 Upvotes

How do I convince this man who "doesn't see the point if he's dying anyway"?


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 2d ago

I've lost track of how many relationships I had ended using the "It's not you, it's me" excuse.

45 Upvotes

It's true, though, because I don't deserve to have anybody in my life.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 3d ago

She absolutely HAMMERED my cock NSFW

210 Upvotes

It was painful to watch my beloved pet rooster turn into a red goop right in front of my eyes.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 2d ago

“Mummy, please play with me”

17 Upvotes

As I looked at my beautiful two year-old son, I simply was unable to be the happy mother he deserved.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 3d ago

"Clarence, your parole starts now, remember, do better like you said you would and you'll never see us ever again."

194 Upvotes

2 months later, we met the drunkard who accidentally killed Clarence with his F250.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 2d ago

will you be there for me?

2 Upvotes

i still weep thinking about that question at night.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 3d ago

For my wedding, I was overjoyed when every single loved one I invited was able to attend.

219 Upvotes

I wish even one had declined so the building collapse, which left me the only survivor, wouldn’t have claimed everyone I loved.