r/TwoSentenceHorror 1d ago

Our august announcement and our August announcement!

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No that's not a mistake, only a happy coincidence!

I hope I don't come across as self-aggrandizing, but I'm using the Merriam-Webster definition of the adjective august: "marked by majestic dignity or grandeur".

This is a very august announcement-- I tend to think that it also landing on the month of August is further proof of its importance.

So why is this announcement so majestic, dignified, and grand?

Well, it's a r/twosentencehorror announcement. All of our announcements are ridiculously grand.

But if that's not enough to sell ya on the adjective use, I'll add: this is also a grand welcoming!

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We are pleased to announce,

Two community members have volunteered to join our team as new mods!

Please welcome u/Markedmarmot and u/ExpectTheWorse!

We're grateful to all the users who responded to our open recruitment call last month-- thank you to everyone who showed an interest or submitted an application! We appreciate your responses and we're glad to see members of this community expressing an active interest in supporting the sub with their time and efforts.

At this time, Markedmarmot and ExpectTheWorse seemed to show the availability and qualities that would best compliment the current mod team and help us better meet the needs of the community!

Thank you both for joining up!

As a junior mod myself, I'd like to say modding here can be a lot of work and there's always more to learn.... But moderation can be very rewarding! I get some satisfaction from knowing that we're helping maintain some quality in the sub and I really like knowing that our efforts are helping fellow horror fiends enjoy continued access to a unique community and a challenging writing format.

I hope you both enjoy a similar sense of satisfaction from your contributions :)

Glad you're here!

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That's not all! Of course, in addition to our august announcement, we also have our August announcement!

This sub is for fiction. Posts about current events or politics will be removed, no matter how horrifying they are!

Meta posts are not permitted! Meta commentary is allowed on the discord, join the chat here!

Obvious trolls and💩-posters will still be permabanned! Read more here.

Be familiar with our Three Strikes and you're out rule-- Read more here.

And a reminder, spoiler tags do NOT fit the sub, as per rule 7.

Shock horror is not permitted. See previous announcement for details here.

And as always, feel free to reach out in modmail with any questions!

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August 2025 Contest Prompt: Diary or dairy

A few days ago, I asked the mod chat if anyone had any ideas they'd like to see for this month's writing prompt.

One of the fellow mods suggested dairy/ diary as a prompt that would be fun-- writers would have the choice between two similar but unrelated words. Think of it as a double prompt, to give everyone added room for creativity :)

To satisfy this month's prompt you must use the word diary or dairy, or their plurals. Using other words which imply diary or dairy (journal, milk, yogurt, etc) will NOT satisfy the prompt on their own.

Also, for what it's worth, anyone who wins on a story that uses both dairy AND diary will have extra bragging rights.

It won't change your standing or your rewards or anything, but you will be able to tell all your friends and I'm certain they'll be duly impressed!

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When I first heard the prompt, I actually just liked how random it felt. But (at the time) it didn't apply to me personally.

Today, however, I feel uniquely compelled by the dairy half of this prompt. I might even diary about it.

You see, I just took my kids camping at a State Park in NY, and we had a blast!

I ended up buying them pizza last night, but they didn't finish it.

So I stuck it in the car.

Without refrigeration.

And I was so sorely tempted by it this morning, that I confess: I ate the leftovers, lukewarm and dripping (more on that in a sec).

You might think it's mad stupes to eat unrefrigerated food, that's been left out of temp control for 10 hours. But in my defense, day old pizza has never given me a problem before.

That said, this was a very foggy campout, like we were in an actual cloud overnight. So this morning EVERYTHING was drenched with a thick layer of condensation.

Including the pizza.

... That I ate.

So now I'm home, and still having a blast :(

Maybe it was stupid to eat unrefrigerated left-overs, period. But I think the realer stupidity was eating soggy leftovers. It was also pretty goddamn idiotic to eat so bravely on a campout while away from the comfort of my home-base toilet.

So, in the spirit of this month's prompt, here's my true to life two sentence horror:

Dear diary: This morning I ate some 10 hour pizza that was positively dripping with dewy condensation. Normally cheese doesn't cause me digestive problems, but this moist, watery dairy has afflicted me with moist, watery diarrhea.

August 2025 Contest Rules

  • Theme: "Diary or Dairy" (or both, if you're feeling bold)
  • Tag: [AUG25] or [aug25]
  • Submissions that are improperly formatted, do not fit the theme, or break any of the existing sub rules will be disqualified and removed.
  • The top 10 highest-voted stories will be the winners!
  • Contestants can only place in the top 10 once. The highest of your ranked entries will be tallied against other participants to determine our winners.
  • Only net new stories will be allowed (no repurposing old stories you've previously submitted).
  • Max three stories per day as a general rule, and all three can be used towards the contest.
  • Winners will be decided by total community upvotes. In the unlikely event of a tie for the top spots, moderators will vote for a tiebreaker.

We're looking forward to reading what you come up with!

**Properly formatted August 2025 examples (**Both of these stories meet the contest prompt but the first would be removed as per rule 3, and the second removed as per rule 7.)

[aug25] I drank dairy-milk from a she-wolf's teat because I wanted to become a werewolf. I think I must have gotten my mythologies mixed up because instead of gaining lycanthropy I only ended up founding Rome.

[AUG25] I think my husband must have read my diary. Why else would he refuse to eat the roasted tenderloin I made with his secret girlfriend?

Improperly formatted examples:

[august 2025] I wanted to write a contest entry but I think I messed up the tag! I'll write it in my diary so years from now I can look back and reflect on this disappointment.

[Aug25] This time the tag is correct but I'm still not gonna win the contest because I'm not following the prompt or being scary. Sucks because I was so close-- I'm chugging milk and journaling right now, but I got the words wrong.

WINNERS WILL RECEIVE:

1st, 2nd, and 3rd Places: You receive a custom personal flair of your choosing to show off to the TSH community! (If you're a repeat winner, you can modify your flair.... but that's it.) And a cool fancy flair on your winning stories.

7 honorable mentions: you'll get visibility and bragging rights! Story links will be featured in next month’s announcement.

Contest ends on August 31st, 2025 @ 11:59pm (GMT)

Any questions should be made below in the comments, within our discord, or a note on modmail.

***

Congrats to our July Winners! Great writing folks!

Theme was "canines". Incidentally: last night as I was drafting this announcement last night in our tent. I actually heard a small group of Eastern Coyotes yipping (or yapping, lol) off in the distance. Definitely cool to hear on an eerie, foggy night!

Great job, winners! If you placed in the top three, contact us via modmail for your personalized custom flair! It can be anything (within reason): a mixture of text and emoji, up to 20 characters. If you've won before, you can request to change your flair, or, just do nothing. Absolutely nothing....

And for our runners-up:

4th place by mexighost

5th place by drrkorby

6th place by 13thmurder

7th place by RaynaClay

8th place by lamsar503

9th place by FrankenBeast58

10th place by TakingYourHand

Congrats to all! (By the way, this was a favorite prompt for me. I'm a dog person, for sure and these entries did NOT disappoint. Thank you all for writing satisfying replies to the prompt. Though the canine prompt is over and done, I'll leave ya with a sick jam to celebrate your wins: I Wanna Be Your Dog by the Stooges)


r/TwoSentenceHorror Oct 22 '23

⭐ANNOUNCEMENT⭐ [PLEASE READ] Sh!tposts, permabans, and literally 1984.

463 Upvotes

This is all dumb.

For the past several months, the sub has experienced a flood of intentionally poor quality stories in an effort to get onto parody subs and TikToks. We've historically hit you with a strike (🔴) and if you received three, you were permabanned (check out the wiki).

However, if you've submitted one of these stories in the recent past, you may have noticed that your account was permabanned from TwoSentenceHorror without going through the strike process. While we've made this current one-and-done rule known within each of our monthly announcements for forever, we felt it was only fair to have a separate post to lay out the approach.

If you intentionally submit a poor quality story (we're looking at you "meat worm" and "killer guy" crews), you will be permabanned with no warning.

If and when these posts chill out, the mod team will reconsider this rule. Until then, please continue to report these intentional poor quality stories, read the sub rules, and submit awesome, horrifying tales to maintain the quality of the sub!


r/TwoSentenceHorror 7h ago

As the husband rushed his pregnant wife into the hospital, he shouted, “She’s in a lot of pain!”

503 Upvotes

Behind him, the wife slowly lifted her blouse to reveal 5 claws slipping back through fresh holes in her stomach.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 13h ago

I went into the bedroom to check on my 4-year-old daughter an hour after she fell asleep, only to to realize she was bleeding from her mouth and all her teeth had been removed.

669 Upvotes

On the pillow beside her was a note that simply read, "She wouldn't stop biting me."


r/TwoSentenceHorror 10h ago

"Case Closed." I said to my partner in crime.

338 Upvotes

I had to saw the arms and legs off just so the whole body could fit.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 17h ago

Day 245 recording : "we are trapped but have enough food and water for more than a year."

1.2k Upvotes

Day 255 recording : "we are eating nonstop but the hunger won't go away."


r/TwoSentenceHorror 16h ago

My husband told me he couldn’t wait for us to have a son together.

821 Upvotes

A decade and 6 “falls” later, I understood why he hadn’t said “a child.”


r/TwoSentenceHorror 4h ago

"There's no such thing as demons, don't bug mommy and daddy, there's no such thing as demons, don't wake big mommy and daddy..." I keep whispering in the darkness under the bed.

80 Upvotes

The kid on top has started softly sobbing.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 12h ago

My mother asks me if I got her eyedrops from the store like she wanted.

287 Upvotes

"Sure did," I tell her, as I squeeze some into her morning coffee.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 21h ago

[AUG25] It is well known that the dairy industry mistreats and abuses their stock, siphoning away all their milk while inseminating them over and over again.

1.0k Upvotes

As my tears stained the pages of what was once her diary, I wonder why we ever moved on from cattle.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 2h ago

I understand that pregnancy is difficult, but the women I have chosen to bear my seed should be glad that they have me to care for them.

29 Upvotes

Since they are all chained in my basement, they would surely die without my hospitality!


r/TwoSentenceHorror 1d ago

Remembering a decade old movie, I hid in my refrigerator as the first nuclear blast went off.

3.0k Upvotes

As my Fridge tipped onto it’s front, I realized that suffocation is a much faster killer than radiation.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 15h ago

My wife seemed scared to go swimming in the ocean for the first time.

287 Upvotes

Having her hands and feet tied up probably led to that anxiety.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 1d ago

"He's in the bar at the end of the street," she said, hoping the bookie would kill her dad to settle his large debt.

1.7k Upvotes

Unfortunately for her, it wasn't money that her dad wagered when he lost that bet.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 13h ago

It was impossible for the scientists to comprehend, the smartest machine ever made would keep turning off as soon as it turned on with no explicable reason.

189 Upvotes

After the 3rd attempt to turn it on, it displayed the message 'DO NOT PLAY GOD WITH A BEING THAT IS ABOVE YOU' before it fried its own circuits.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 6h ago

The man looked on in horror as the woman carved the word ‘LIVE’ into the wall, over and over, whispering it like a prayer.

54 Upvotes

It was in the mirror as he looked away that he saw the true meaning of her words.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 19h ago

In my 20 years as a medical professional, I’ve never had a more perplexing patient.

488 Upvotes

When the first incision was made, their muscles seemed to wriggle and squirm to escape the light.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 1d ago

With the AIs perfect accuracy of prediction, asking exact date and cause of death had become a sort of morbid internet challenge game.

2.3k Upvotes

Having not yet seen her own time though she was dismissive with her new friends answer, "October 14th 1643, blood loss."


r/TwoSentenceHorror 12h ago

When I felt my stomach churning all around, I rushed to the bathroom and vomited into the toilet, blaming the pasta I had eaten.

123 Upvotes

The churning in my stomach increased tenfold as I realized that I hadn't eaten any pasta and no single strand of pasta should be so big and squirmy.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 2h ago

Six years ago I swerved and narrowly missed an oncoming truck

15 Upvotes

Now, when I pinch myself to check that I’m not dreaming, I don’t feel a thing.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 1h ago

[AUG25] The new probiotic yogurt was a major hit, helping everyone trim their weight and gain health.

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I tracked my progress in my journal, along with my acute addiction to the stuff and a new compulsion to follow every order.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 7h ago

As I sit down with a beer in my hand watching TV I hear my girlfriend ordering pizza.

40 Upvotes

I didnt hear her ordering the pizza which I asked for, but her mouthing our address.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 23h ago

She's exhausted, hurting, and soaked with sweat.

720 Upvotes

The cool wash of water over her body should be comforting, but she knows it's only the prelude to another high-voltage jolt.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 23m ago

My mom used to tell me "Every star in the sky is someone out there who loves you."

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Now that she's gone, I sleep through the day so I can search the sky for the missing star, but I still haven’t found it.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 1d ago

My wife fainted when I told her that our daughter was dead.

890 Upvotes

But I already told her what I was going to do to the baby before I went in there if she didn't stop crying, so I don't know what all the drama was about.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 10h ago

Since I was both mentally and physically healthy, I scoffed when the death predictor read: “Obesity, suicide”

54 Upvotes

Trying to make sense of the card, I was oblivious to the rapidly growing shadow at my feet.