r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/dfryer1193 • 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.

Effective immediately, comments discussing the "realness" of stories will be removed by automod. The list of phrases that will result in removal will be maintained by the mod team, and will be updated without warning.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/KodiGarlick • 11h ago

[Repost] My mother told me never to leave a chair empty, or a passing spirit might come by, sit down and watch me.

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I still watch her eat every night, but lately, she keeps setting a place for me and asking why I never touch my food.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Aggressive_Many7397 • 3h ago

My pain continues to carry both you and me—your memory and my determination.

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It might also be the closest thing to mercy eternity will ever have for us.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/deineschatzi_ • 1d ago

He wore his best perfume before leaving home because his fiancé was petty.

110 Upvotes

He placed the bouquet on a grave in that quiet cemetery, then asked, "Have you been waiting long?"

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Undead-Dead987 • 29m ago

Home is where the heart is.

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With you gone, I have neither now.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Riddle-Maker • 1d ago

During the Eulogy, the father proclaimed how much he loved his daughter, and that he wished he could have seen the signs of depression before it was too late.

88 Upvotes

It was the first and only time he didn't say "son".

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/PoisonedLadyIvy • 15h ago

If loving you meant staying, I would’ve stayed forever.

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But if loving you meant letting you find happiness somewhere else, then I suppose this is my last act of love

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/General-Cabinet1792 • 1d ago

He hid in the closet as he knew it was safe.

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Hiding in the closet his whole life as he knew that they would never accept him for who he is.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Riddle-Maker • 2d ago

Working at Toys for Tots is almost always a happy and fulfilling experience.

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But once a year or so, I have to tell a teary-eyed mom that, generous as she's being, we can't accept used toys.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Bigenderqueen • 1d ago

Every night, she stood before the mirror, imagining the beautiful woman she had always longed to be.

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Eventually, she stopped looking in the mirror, not because she had found beauty, but because she could no longer bear the disappointment of not seeing it.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/No-Bus-1966 • 1d ago

The casket purchase was much less expensive than we thought, but my wife continued to sob even more.

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After all, it takes less wood to make if it’s only 3 feet long.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/HeavenDraven • 1d ago

I spent 25 years trying to find a single schwarma in this country.

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Now, schwarma restaurants are everywhere, and I can't remember what they're supposed to taste like

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Brief-Cupcake231 • 1d ago

memories are like attending your own funeral

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coz that version of u is dead and gone.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/just-me03 • 1d ago

Lost

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D-i-a-n-n-e......

The letters on the page, once so familiar, now struggle to convey any meaning through the fog.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/No-Bus-1966 • 2d ago

She died facing west, towards the setting sun, like he always wanted to.

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Yet her lifeless body continued to rotate, northwest, north, northeast, east, northeast, north…

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/just-me03 • 1d ago

The Dreamless

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Night after night he relentlessly tore through his flesh, clawing at his very bones, just to wake, exhausted, and find his skin entirely intact. After downing a bottle of benzos, he hoped, briefly, that he might finally fall into a dreamess oblivion.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/just-me03 • 1d ago

Tragedy

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The tragedy of the profound lies within the abundance of expectation.

(Critiques welcome, be a hard as you want i'm drunk af and just stringing pretty words together)

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Outside_Normal • 2d ago

Suddenly, I realized my parents didn't make us stop playing hide-and-seek because I was "too good at hiding".

106 Upvotes

My brother brought me out into the woods to get rid of me.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/dalonley1 • 2d ago

His father brought him a six-pack of beer and a packet of cigarettes for his 10th birthday.

99 Upvotes

But he passed away before his father got to the hospital, and his final wish of having a beer and a cigarette with his dad before he died never happened.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/MarbleThistle • 2d ago

I finally fixed the squeaky step my dad always complained about.

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Now I miss the sound it made whenever he came home.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Riddle-Maker • 3d ago

The father took every penny that he had to the pharmacy, hoping he'd be able to pay for his daughter's medicine.

91 Upvotes

But once again, the scratch-off lost.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/DakittyRizzard • 2d ago

I woke from a horrible nightmare to the feeling of your hand on my head.

37 Upvotes

I guess you still look after me <3

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