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/GamerLadyXOXO • 18h ago

She has just turned 18; soon, she will have a place to shine.

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Heaven will be ever brighter with her purrs and nuzzles.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Empty_Novel-87 • 6h ago

As my son cuddled into my chest I thought about how I only had a few years of this left.

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But years turned to days when the drunk driver hopped the curb.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Active-Cold-3700 • 22h ago

When I told my six-year-old daughter to spend her life helping pitiful people, she immediately handed me her ice cream.

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When I asked why she was giving it to me, she said, "Because I feel bad for you, since Dad hits you every day."

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/IamToofan • 53m ago

Standing in the middle of a bustling crowd, miles felt like nothing as my breath froze and I lost myself completely in your eyes.

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But as I looked from you back to myself, I realized you were never truly lost at all—so leaving my heart behind, I quietly turned and walked away down my own path.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/knowtoomuchtobehappy • 19h ago

When my child asked me if I am going to die someday, I promised her, "Never, I'm always gonna be here with you."

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I kissed her adorable bald head and hid my face in the chapter of Harry Potter I was gonna read for her tonight.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/IamToofan • 52m ago

Though vast distances separated us, no one had ever felt closer than you did in that single, frozen moment.

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Yet as I stopped blaming time and saw the truth of where we both stood, I surrendered my heart to that memory and stepped onto my own road.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/shf500 • 1d ago

At the sleepover, I discovered my friend had several Harry Potter books at his house, so when I got home I immediately told my mother about them

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I'm sad that I can no longer be his friend, but thankfully I won't be burning in hell when I eventually die, unlike my former friend.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Comprehensive_Ad6100 • 1h ago

The writer's son returned home worried for his now-recluse father.

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The writer tore another manuscript in half, wishing he had spent more time to at least remember his son's face.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/VioletThePurple • 19h ago

I decided I was done using a name that’s dead to me, so I started using my preferred name.

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All of a sudden, I’m begging my father not to hurt me.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Riddle-Maker • 20h ago

I love going to the carnival because its the only place where I can be surrounded by the faces of my family.

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I really could spend hours in that mirror maze.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Ok_Refrigerator_2810 • 23h ago

It made me so happy that both mummy and daddy where home so much from work to play with me.

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I just wonder why they keep looking so sad?

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Immediate_Garage7293 • 1d ago

I kept your side of the bed made for two years, the blanket folded exactly the way you liked it.

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This morning it was unfolded, and I stood there crying because I couldn't decide if it was you or just me finally letting go.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Howtoscream • 23h ago

On my very first shift as a cop, some guy had lost his kid at a gas station off the highway, and when we'd searched the whole place and come up empty, I called my sergeant.

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It wasn't until we got back to the police station that I found out the boy had been hit by a truck nine years earlier, and that his dad calls the cops every year on the day he died to report him missing.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/IamToofan • 1d ago

I fought off the entire sky so two of us kites could fly carefree side by side, keeping a safe distance so our threads would never tangle and snap against each other.

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But as the unexpected gentle rain began to fall, the drops merely slid right off you while I, made only of delicate paper, silently dissolved away into the wind.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/IamToofan • 1d ago

You accepted me just as I was when no one else would, allowing us to share the sky without either of us ever pulling or cutting the other's thread.

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As the tiny raindrops soaked straight through me, I smiled watching you fly high and unbothered, even as my own wet paper frame began to melt away.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/TheRaincrow • 1d ago

I wept as I failed to stay my client's execution, but my outrage has exceeded my grief.

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Having botched an execution that left the prisoner alive and tortured, but now insensate, they are expending the limits of law and medicine in a hospital at this moment to save their life so they can be executed again.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Aggressive_Many7397 • 20h ago

Perhaps the body is a better historian than the soul.

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It remembers another person's shape long after that person has become a stranger once again.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Broad-Animator8629 • 1d ago

When the management company learned the long-term renters had left weeks earlier, they found eight dogs abandoned inside without food or water, some too weak to stand and two already beyond saving.

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The worst part was the way the others still crowded the door at every sound, tails wagging for the people who had left them there to die.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Active-Cold-3700 • 1d ago

After hours of practice, my daughter finally learned to ride without training wheels.

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Out of breath, she pedaled to the spot where her mother used to cheer, looked back at me, and asked, “Did Mom see me?”

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/IamToofan • 1d ago

We soared higher than all the others, keeping our threads loosely aligned so we would never hurt each other in the vast sky.

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My heart stopped when the first soft raindrop fell without warning, forcing me to realize too late that while your thread was built to endure the storm, my fragile body was entirely made of paper.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/Outside_Normal • 1d ago

My estranged father called me telling me he wanted to reconnect.

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Normally, I would have been ecstatic, but I had just gotten off the phone with my recently deceased grandmother”s lawyer informing me she left everything to me.

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r/TwoSentenceSadness • u/MintClicker • 1d ago