Two Sentence Horror
- 'You'd be example for others, a hero, who survived to tell one's tale!'
Said a terrorist, securing a black plastic bag over one's head for their transportation.
- The doctor told her that she had twins but I knew better.
I still remember the noise that thing made as it crawled inside my wife.
- "Put this in your mouth son, it will help with the fever"
I didn't have the heart to tell him what the gag was really for as I watched the bite mark ooze puss.
- The gods are all real and answer all of our prayers.
To them it's hilarious that all of our suffering was caused by someone else praying for it.
- I was tired so I ignored the crying on the baby monitor.
When I checked it a few hours later, my baby was gone.
- I woke up staring at the ceiling.
The quadriplegia was a new reality I had to live with.
- They exited the wormhole with their small shuttle craft at the far side of the galaxy.
They turned the ship around and the wormhole disappeared.
- I see food on the table, my wife must have realized who owns this house
The food is good, but it tastes a lot like almonds
- I asked the tall well muscled man in a furry outfit and head gear to remove the costume.
He looked down with deep set frantic eyes and said it wasn't a costume.
- The people gathered and cheered for their elected new leader.
An hour later, in clouds of tear gas and smoke, the soldiers moved in to disperse the crowds.
- I went into my neighbor's house, it had been a while since they went outside to buy cat food.
There was the smell of rot, and a cat with blood on its face greeting me once I got in
- He loved the feeling of flying, of gliding and being as free as a bird.
Time had stood still and the moment felt like an hour after the impact with the transport truck.
- He kissed his son on the forehead for the last time and held him close.
The initial blast wave instantly vaporized them leaving only a negative image on the concrete where they had been standing.
- I've been drinking tap water recently to save money, it tasted a bit odd
When the person I hired opened up the pipes, there was a lot of mold inside
- My new moisturiser was really working wonders for my skin.
I put it back in the basket, because I didn't want to get the hose again.
- She moved her panties to the side.
The new space made room to hide the severed fingers in her bedroom drawer.
- A being with a human like face knocked on the exterior of the glass dome in front of us.
The pilot sounded the alarm and we started our ascent from the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
- As the day time light faded, I put on my special solar glasses to look at the eclipse.
I saw the corona ring and dozens of triangular shapes appear around the Moon's silhouette.
- My neighbor's curtains are usually dry and clean
Today they are wet and dirty with a strange red substance
- I served the German SS officer his coffee with cream in the most prestigious hotel in Frankfurt.
He did not know I was a Polish Jew.
- A laser light sign was projected on everyone's house from an unknown source.
The characters were unfamiliar in any language but they were changing in sequence to one another as time went on.
- The angel looked upset, concerned, frustrated and almost angry with red watered eyes and a flushed face.
Thirty million new souls had suddenly arrived all at once under his care.
- I had been alone in space orbit for the past five days.
Then I heard someone knocking outside.
- I was overwhelmed with emotion, being this famous.
Every med student would learn my name, now.
- A strange white orb lingered high in the sky and stayed there for days.
Everyone ignored it and said it wasn't there while no news reported the sighting that only I could see every day.
- The men of the German SS Tank Division cheered and celebrated up and down the long column.
As the mushroom cloud rose above the city that was once Moscow.
- My body moved and talked on its own.
It was then that I realized, I was just a passive observer.
- As Death led him away by the hand, the more he asked, the more he forgot.
Until he forgot everything and was born again.
- Slurping up one of my noodles I felt it slither a bit.
A few days later I went to the doctor and they found worms in my stomach.
- I lay in the dark wondering what to write.
And waited for the voices to tell me a story.
- It was 500 years ago when the massive star system had collapsed in its final death throes and randomly threw out enormous jets of radiation into the vacuum of space.
Traveling at the speed of light, Earth would have no warning of the shower of radiation that would decimate half the planet's life forms and atmosphere.
- I felt my face hit the floor, heard the roar of the crowd and saw their wild faces.
After the guillotine had completed it's final motion.
- I could hear the doctor speak to his staff and give directions for the work ahead.
With my useless body locked in place, my mind was a conscious witness to my own four hour corrective spinal surgery.
- My breath grew slow, my chest became calm and the tightness let go.
As the winter storm howled across my face.
- I could feel the sand around my hands and feet.
As the tidal waves gently lapped against my face.
- I could feel the cold air, the heavy wind and the seatbelt tight around my waist.
As the aircraft I once sat in trailed fire and smoke across the sky away from me.
- I could feel the sunlight on my face as I drifted towards the moon.
It had been an hour since the tether broke and the alarms said I had fifty minutes left.
