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 8h ago

I cried from pain every day and even the funny-tasting salami couldn't relieve it.

240 Upvotes

Today the nice vetlady told me to go to sleep and when I woke up, I ran with my long-lost friends over a green meadow.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 1h ago

"I've been awake all night yesterday, planning today's events, and am super excited for the date we're about to have today!!!"

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But, you know, it's also fine if you'd like to spend the rest of the day sleeping!! I wouldn't mind ^^


r/TwoSentenceSadness 19h ago

“I love you, my boy,” I whispered, petting his greying face as he looked longingly at me. His tail softly hit the floor, waiting for our car ride home.

282 Upvotes

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r/TwoSentenceSadness 23h ago

In an attic on the dusty hard drive of a discarded console, a digital dog still waits faithfully at the entrance of a pixelated house.

486 Upvotes

He has spent all these long years wagging his tail for someone who grew up, moved away, and forgot the password to their own childhood.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 4h ago

"This is Alex, who's sadly not available because I'm either working or with my lover, so leave me a message that I may just hear later"

7 Upvotes

I keep calling everyday, time after time, just to keep hearing her voice once again.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 4h ago

“I love you,” I messaged my mother.

6 Upvotes

It would’ve meant more if I hadn’t just been to her funeral, but I suppose it‘s the thought that truly counts.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 17h ago

My Mommy and Daddy are taking my sibs and I on va-ca-tion and I'm playing in my car seat when Mommy makes a turn.

71 Upvotes

The car hits another car that was not seeable until after we made the turn and now Mommy and Daddy and my sibs won't wake up even if I yell REALLY loud and there's lots of blood.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 23h ago

After fifteen years of relapses, broken promises, and anguished conversations—all slowly hardening into years of estrangement—Daniel arrived at his mother’s funeral one year sober, carrying the recovery coin he had dreamed of placing in her hand.

156 Upvotes

Her will, rewritten years before, named every child but Daniel because she could no longer bear hoping the son she remembered would find his way back to her.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 8h ago

I get really happy when I think of you and always wonder when I'll see you next.

8 Upvotes

Now I get really sad when I think of you and wonder if you'll ever read my message.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 21h ago

My son was playing with our new puppy and started foaming at the mouth out of excitement, so I took him to the doctor.

65 Upvotes

The doctor examined my son and pulled me to the side asking, "Have you ever heard of rabies?"


r/TwoSentenceSadness 19h ago

Facebook cheerfully suggested I reconnect with an old friend today.

24 Upvotes

The last posts on his profile were everyone telling him goodbye.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 23h ago

My parents never let me pick out fresh produce growing up

9 Upvotes

Because I always took what no one else would want


r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

We have plans today and I'm really looking forward to it!

50 Upvotes

I wish I could keep getting excited, but like last time and the time before, you're not going to show up or even answer your phone.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 23h ago

​I am weeping in the dark, desperate for a connection that you refuse to confirm with a single word.

8 Upvotes

Since you won't speak, I only ask that you hold me and let your touch do the work your silence has made impossible.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 23h ago

I begged for your permission to reach out, but your silence felt heavier than any rejection I have ever known.

9 Upvotes

I stopped asking for words and simply pleaded for the only thing that could stop my weeping: your arms around me.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

When she came to her physician desperate for relief from years of crippling anxiety, he promised to do whatever it took to help.

294 Upvotes

Only after she died from an overdose did anyone discover he'd been writing prescriptions he never should have been allowed to write.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 23h ago

I felt like a stone while I waited for an answer that would never come, my heart shattering under the weight of your quiet.

3 Upvotes

If you cannot give me a reason to stay, please, just give me your arms and silence this need with a hug.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

Cursed with a voice that brought a peaceful death to anyone who heard it, Sadiya lived in crushing guilt until Death himself pulled her into a liminal realm to show her the profound gratitude of the souls she had comforted.

132 Upvotes

Returning to the waking world with a healed heart, she no longer feared her grim duty, smiling through her songs as she caught the subtle, comforting scent of the lonely entity who faithfully waited in the shadows just to hear her sing.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

She sang the perfect lullaby for her baby's first night home, only to learn later that it was the same one her late birth mother had sung before giving her up.

76 Upvotes

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r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

Every year we left flowers on the grave of the stranger who had saved my life, until my mother admitted she'd only told me that story so I wouldn't have to grow up knowing who was buried there.

67 Upvotes

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r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

Sent back to the living world after singing a final, peaceful farewell to the souls of the people she had lost, Sadiya woke to the tearful embrace of her mourning mother.

60 Upvotes

Left entirely behind in the vast, empty void of the afterlife, Death could only stare into the quiet darkness, weeping softly as he accepted that eternal isolation was a destiny reserved strictly for him.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 2d ago

"Hello sweetheart, Daddy loves you!"

312 Upvotes

She presses the paw again, on the last toy he ever bought her, just to hear his voice.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 2d ago

My wife wrote down that our son got his first shots, then she hugged me and thanked me for the help.

52 Upvotes

I looked at the papers in confusion, not even being able to remember driving us to the hospital.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 2d ago

Every year since her twin brother went missing, Emily wrapped him a birthday present for when he came home, her father silently letting her keep that hope.

48 Upvotes

He told himself that someday there would be time to say everything that needed saying, even after the police identified his son's body three winters earlier.