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 • • 13h ago

My three cats fixed their eyes on me as I glided into the kitchen.

156 Upvotes

Even in my death they still expect me to get them a treat from the cupboard.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 17h ago

His wife died in the hospital alone on her birthday because they would let him in to see her.

162 Upvotes

They said that he couldn't even remember who she was, so taking him in there would just freak him out.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 7h ago

When I was little, I spent all afternoon making a birthday card for my godmother.

30 Upvotes

A few days later, I found it in her trash


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 45m ago

When the men found the angel after it fell from heaven, they were captivated by its natural beauty and soothing voices.

• Upvotes

So it didn't take long before they realized that the angel could make them money and locked it in a cage so they could put it on display.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 13h ago

I broke up with my ex a year ago because I felt like he was constantly ignoring me and not listening to half of what I said.

67 Upvotes

Today I saw him smiling with his new girlfriend...while wearing a hearing aid.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 14h ago

Need a Hug

25 Upvotes

Need a hug today as its the anniversary of a death of a loved one
Send positive love & vibes to me people ❤️


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 1d ago

The advances in medical science has improved exponentially, to the point where a cancer diagnosis is no longer considered a guaranteed death sentence.

46 Upvotes

Unfortunately, it also doesn't guarantee a cure, as I discovered when the doctors gave me the grave news.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 1d ago

The doctor said the test was “over ninety-nine percent accurate,” so she’d accepted the results and put the rest of the matter behind her.

227 Upvotes

Now, her son calls her a liar, shaking a piece of paper in her face with the results of a home saliva test he took himself.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 1d ago

Mary clings to her husbands coat as he stalks to his car,"We have seven kids, you can't just leave me here!"

62 Upvotes

Sneering, he backhands her into the dirt, climbing into his beat-up Ford pick-up, and driving off without so much as a word, leaving her broken on the ground.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 1d ago

"Sometimes life is a fight you just can't win."

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Anna sits remembering her father's last words, before he took his life, and shudders at how reasonable they now sound.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 1d ago

I have to turn down my dream job in another city because my wife cannot travel. I love her too much to leave her...

33 Upvotes

or disinter her.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 2d ago

Everyone sang happy birthday, and he smiled as he blew out the candles surrounded by people who loved him.

144 Upvotes

Nobody knew his only wish was to stop hurting, and he no longer believed he would ever find another way.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 2d ago

I was 5 when my father died, 8 when my mother remarried, 10 when she died, and 13 when my stepfather remarried.

226 Upvotes

How do I handle a new parent who actually asks me about myself and seems to care?


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 2d ago

I called your phone every so often just to hear your voicemail.

56 Upvotes

But one day someone else picked up.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 2d ago

The other gamers made fun of them for using their real name.

47 Upvotes

“deadname, come to dinner!” called their mother, as they closed out of the online game, sighing longingly with a single tear in their eye.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 3d ago

It's twenty-five years later, and you know, I swore I would forget everything that happened and move on with living.

102 Upvotes

My memory, like my heart, had other plans.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 2d ago

So tonight, I will leave the sepulchre unlocked and I won't destroy it, while you may remain somewhere in the architecture of my becoming, but you shall no longer be its destination.

7 Upvotes

There is no life somewhere that I must uncover to become the person I was meant to be because there is only this life, which is unplanned, limited, not completed, and let it belong to me.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 3d ago

« Good job » he said as I faced my fears and jumped

60 Upvotes

For the first time ever, the voices in my head said something positive to me


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 3d ago

"Please, my child is dying, can she please have a glass of water?" I asked as I held my daughter to my chest

316 Upvotes

"Of course she can" It said in a jaunty voice, and printed out a picture of a smiling white child who holding out a glass of water


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 3d ago

"His father died ...

39 Upvotes

...by suicide, nine years ago when he was four." -my mother answers the child psychologist.
5 minutes later with the expert, I finally got curious: "What is suicide?"


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 3d ago

They bought a PS1 and a new TV with my three-year-long savings+'fresh' Communion money.

28 Upvotes

Nobody asked me for the money and asking 'why' was too risky.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 4d ago

It irked him sometimes that his talents were conscripted to help celebrities and politicians custom design defect-free children that they knew they could love.

299 Upvotes

He took comfort knowing that some conditions—mostly cerebral, like Multiple Systems Atrophy, Alzheimer’s, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the list went on—were untraceable until death.


r/TwoSentenceSadness • • 4d ago

He spent his final evening writing letters to everyone he loved, smiling as he remembered the moments that had made life beautiful.

153 Upvotes

The next morning, they discovered the letters and realized that the person who had always asked if everyone else was okay had been silently begging someone to ask him the same.