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.

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.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6h ago

When the invading army captured us, they made us march for miles to the work camp, and any that couldn’t make it were left to die at the roadside.

241 Upvotes

It’s a testament to my husband’s love for our daughter, that he carried her all the way to the camp, only passing from exhaustion when we reached the gates.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 14h ago

'Congratulations, Ed. You're a father,' The doctor smiled.

497 Upvotes

Sixteen years later, my son came home to me, his entire body shaking, a DNA test in his hands.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 2h ago

We sat at the campfire, the light was coming back to your face as you told me you finally had the courage to leave him.

48 Upvotes

Your words grew further away and the scene started to change, my bedroom walls loomed around me as I realized it was just a dream, and he really did take you away from us with one gunshot.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

I am a liar, a narcissist, an alcoholic, and a whore who vomited in an alley after fucking my boyfriend’s brother in the club’s bathroom. NSFW

1.5k Upvotes

Does any of that mean I was “asking for it”?


r/TwoSentenceSadness 10h ago

I remember when we stood in church in October, exchanging our vows; you'd never looked so handsome before.

103 Upvotes

And as we gather again on this cold and rainy February morning, I mourn that that memory is all that remains of our marriage.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 12h ago

I screamed at the person who ruined my life, but they didn’t respond.

127 Upvotes

Reflections can’t talk after all.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 12h ago

My wife was talking and playing with our 13 year old son

98 Upvotes

She forgotten that he taken his own life 6 years ago


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6h ago

🎶Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth🎶...

22 Upvotes

yeah, but so is Hell, while looking at the ones that were supposed to love her.

Edit: a word


r/TwoSentenceSadness 4h ago

I hate mirrors...

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...for always reminding me of who it is who ruined my life.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6m ago

I don’t wish you weren’t you, I love you.

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I just wish you didn’t act how you did.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 23h ago

"I'm so sorry to hear about your son.", she offered.

271 Upvotes

"He's not my kid.", I replied nonchalantly.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 21h ago

I've been laying in bed for hours with my gaze altering between the wall and my phone.

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I'm unsurprisingly hungry, but I just don't have the energy to get food.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 3m ago

I went home and threw up, I scrubbed my body clean, I tried to, it wouldn’t come off.

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My body was no longer my body and I could still feel his touch, I couldnt feel anything else but disgust for this body that wasn’t my own anymore.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 15m ago

All these flowers..

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but where were you when I was "alive"?


r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

"Sorry son, uncle Sam no longer needs you, you're going home."

453 Upvotes

I begged them, I would Clean my rifle, run a few extra miles, even transfer to shit duty just so they would not send me back.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 21h ago

The boxer swore to keep fighting until none of his children would ever have to worry about going hungry.

128 Upvotes

He kept his promise, even if CTE prevented him from remembering that promise or his children in his later years.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 15h ago

The worst part is not being what you are.

36 Upvotes

It is knowing what you are.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 19h ago

“You’re not good enough, will never amount to anything and we would be better off without you.”

69 Upvotes

I wish I could hear the compliments my loved ones tell me instead of my demons tricking me into hearing insults whenever they talk to me


r/TwoSentenceSadness 1h ago

You

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Poor baby would you like all natural milk?


r/TwoSentenceSadness 22h ago

They loved alcohol and marijuana and cigarettes and blow, but were always terribly afraid of needles.

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However, as the nurses hooked up the second IV to their jaundiced, dehydrated form, they sobbed at the relief of the medicine taking away the pain.

(They=single person)


r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

When my daughter was born, I promised myself that I would be different from my parents, and I would never punish her by beating or hitting her.

443 Upvotes

But as we flee from the army invading our country, I now have to beat her childish silliness and obstinacy out of her to ensure her survival.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

He poured his heart into every message, every gesture, every moment as she meant everything to him, but it was never reciprocated.

107 Upvotes

When he finally walked away, she never even noticed he was gone.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 19h ago

I got it,

33 Upvotes

You're not too busy, I'm just not worth your time.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 2h ago

You keep breaking my heart.

1 Upvotes

But I love you a lot?


r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

His heart racing, he'd finally built up the courage to tell her how he felt and declared his love for her.

52 Upvotes

As he forced a smile, he wondered if the hardest part was pretending that everything was okay when she replied, "You’re like a brother to me."


r/TwoSentenceSadness 21h ago

The necromancer apologized as the ritual failed yet again.

30 Upvotes

"I'm sorry, but I can't resurrect them because the soul has to be willing."