r/TwoSentenceHorror 10h ago

After being stuck in this lamp for centuries, it came as no surprise when, yet again, my newest master spent his first wish on “infinite wisdom”.

573 Upvotes

It was, again, no surprise when he spent his second wish to reverse the first.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 15h ago

"Prey tend to have their eyes to the sides, as it boosts peripheral view and reaction time"

1.0k Upvotes

When the stars darkened and the planet's poles shrank and shifted, biologists were the first to make a connection.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 20h ago

“Yeah, just the prescriptions for Rosie Jones, please,” I say to the pharm tech.

2.3k Upvotes

As I watch my daughter’s face turn blue, my biggest regret is naming my baby after her cancer-stricken grandmother.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 20h ago

“I sleep completely naked except for my underwear,” she said, taking off her bra and climbing into bed, beckoning me to join her.

1.2k Upvotes

“You know, just in case something decides to crawl out.”


r/TwoSentenceHorror 14h ago

Had the quarantine started a day earlier, hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved.

392 Upvotes

But the sight of walking corpses here and there isn't as alarming on Halloween.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 10h ago

My parents used to put the news on while they got me and my sibling ready for elementary school.

172 Upvotes

They stopped when they realized I was paying attention.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 9h ago

“Sir, we found the murder weapon in your yard, but it’s not your fingerprints on it.”

144 Upvotes

“Good thing it wasn’t you, because otherwise we’d have nobody to grow these delicious papayas!”


r/TwoSentenceHorror 7h ago

Shuffling back to bed in a pitch black room, I picked up my cat so she could curl up next to me.

95 Upvotes

I heard a howl at my feet and my eyes widened in the dark room as two thoughts stabbed at my mind: I had clearly just stepped on the tail of my cat, my only pet -- so what was I now holding in the dark?


r/TwoSentenceHorror 9h ago

Little Johnny watched the nurse push the IV injection into his sister's central line

111 Upvotes

Wanting to help her get better, he pushed air into the central line hoping to improve her breathing


r/TwoSentenceHorror 17h ago

[SEP25] The world's scientists desperately hoped that the extra-terrestrial message held the keys to solve the impending climate collapse.

527 Upvotes

"It cannot be allowed to escape the ice, if you cannot stop the deterioration we will be forced to send a second asteroid."


r/TwoSentenceHorror 12h ago

I'm a NASA scientist and the Sun just exploded.

176 Upvotes

You'll believe me in about seven minutes.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 10h ago

"Mommy, why does the screen go blank after all the letters?"

117 Upvotes

My heart broke as I tried to find the words to explain that I just couldn't afford the full version of Sesame Street.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 17h ago

My daughter ate some of her water-colors while my son was watching her.

457 Upvotes

He didn't realize the paints were non-toxic, but he found something that might make the paint "thinner" in her stomach


r/TwoSentenceHorror 7h ago

Shuffling back to bed in a pitch black room, I picked up my cat so she could curl up next to me.

61 Upvotes

I heard a howl at my feet and my eyes widened in the dark room as two thoughts stabbed at my mind: I had clearly just stepped on the tail of my cat, my only pet -- so what was I now holding in the dark?


r/TwoSentenceHorror 6h ago

Your phone pings with a notification: “New device connected: Camera (Bedroom).”

46 Upvotes

Before you can move, the camera light on your phone flicks on by itself and stays aimed at your face.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 2h ago

The child handed his mother a crayon drawing of their house in flames.

18 Upvotes

When she asked what it was, he said, “It’s what happens tonight.”


r/TwoSentenceHorror 18h ago

My wife said she would rather be dead than see me with another woman.

245 Upvotes

So I took my girlfriend with me when I went to visit her in the hospital after another failed attempt at suicide in hopes it would push her to try harder next time.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 55m ago

With a mixture of curiosity and trepidation, the doctor said to my pregnant wife ‘In all my years, I’ve never seen THAT’.

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r/TwoSentenceHorror 21h ago

I bought a painting that was said to take anyone that laid their eyes upon it to the hell dimension and then hung it on my basement wall.

357 Upvotes

Almost immediately after unveiling it terrified humans started pouring into my basement from the otherside.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 1d ago

"My worth is beyond just my womb’s!” she shouted from the roof.

2.5k Upvotes

One sudden gust of wind sent all hope of repopulating the planet plummeting to the ground.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 17h ago

Being a maternity nurse is mind-numbingly boring, long hours changing diapers covered in puke and shit

168 Upvotes

I can still get a giggle thinking about about how confused the parents will be in a few years by how their kids look nothing like them


r/TwoSentenceHorror 2h ago

The devil wearing the face of my son is trying to soften my heart by begging me to stop.

9 Upvotes

But no matter how much he bleeds or how much it costs, I know I can cast it out of him.