Competition – Two Sentence Stories

Love’s Labours Lost

There were times, when she would catch the faintest whiff of fresh air, that she could remember with startling clarity the nights spent out on the lake, riding around on the boat, Maura’s hand clasped in her own as they looked up at the stars from their pallets on deck.

But the lake was gone, along with the boat, Maura was as good as gone, with no idea what had been done to keep her safe, and the only memories she had to look forward to making now were how far they could torture her with hard labor and hard blows before she merely phased out of existence.

Rating: 8.1/10 (8 votes cast)

Love, Attestable

Say not that your love for me is infinite, for infinity is an unproven theory – such that nothing but infinity itself will persist long enough to witness whether or not infinity truly carries on forever. I am not saying that I don’t want you to love me eternally; only that I want your love for me to be unquestionably certain.

Rating: 7.3/10 (7 votes cast)

Slipped In

He had slipped into her mind as easily and unnoticeably as something gets slipped into a drink. And just as dangerously too, because now that he was there, she couldn’t be held liable for irrational behavior.

Rating: 6.3/10 (3 votes cast)

Pyromanic Depression

The last time I saw her, she had fire in her eyes.

That’ll teach her to play with matches!

Rating: 5.7/10 (3 votes cast)

The Balloon

I kept looking up at this giant Happy Birthday balloon floating above the cubicle next to me like it was a really tall person’s head staring back in disapproval. Finally I jumped at it with a letter opener and stabbed it to death and everyone though I was trying to stab Kelly until I explained everything to HR and the police and was fired, by not arrested.

Rating: 4.0/10 (2 votes cast)

Never Surrender

The waves never stop trying. Neither should you.

Rating: 4.6/10 (10 votes cast)

Vagueism

“Vagueism is a movement. The cosiness of vagueism is the warmth of gentle distortion; a harmonically rich patternhood…”

Rating: 4.6/10 (9 votes cast)

Haze

“Your logic concerning the cause of the haze was fuzzy and cloudy. Those said clouds and fuzzes -were- the cause of the haze.”

Rating: 5.8/10 (5 votes cast)

I Ain’t No Bird

It’s cold up here, but that’s my fault, really, for clippin’ my feathers so soon. The roof is a silly place to jump, anyway, since I’ll have to be able to fly my way down, and I ain’t no bird no more.

Rating: 5.5/10 (4 votes cast)

Super Music Attack!

His image repeated for two hundred projectors back, the conductor raised his baton, at which moment a sea of one point two million flutes, clarinets, oboes, saxophones, bassoons, French horns, trumpets, trombones, baritone horns, tubas, mallets, drumsticks and cymbals all lifted up, signaling their readiness to strike the first note. It was hard to believe that music, of all things, was the alien monster’s weakness, but they were ready.

Rating: 5.2/10 (6 votes cast)

Not Like You

Everything about her is beautiful. Everything about her is not like you.

Rating: 7.1/10 (7 votes cast)

Real Hell

I had always imagined blazing hot flames, whips and chains, and one hundred tons of pure, physical pain. But if I had known that hell was going to consist of watching over and over again the thing I did to you… well, this is far worse than the punishment I had imagined – and there’s no way to go back.

Rating: 7.1/10 (10 votes cast)

In Love with Yesteryear

“Please don’t break up with me,” Gary begged with big, brown puppy-dog eyes. “I love you.”
A part of Allison – however small – wished she had the capacity to love him right now while he was here with her to be loved, but she was well aware that her infatuation with all things past meant she would come to love him several years from now, by which time he would be completely out of reach.

Rating: 4.8/10 (5 votes cast)

Wife by Day

Tiffany slid off her ring and set it gently on top of the dresser every night just before going to bed. She was a wife by day; dreamer, by night.

Rating: 7.6/10 (7 votes cast)

Cool Torture

“You an advocate of slow torture?” Carol asked her son when she saw what was sitting in the refrigerator. “Next time you wanna play murderer why don’t you just get it over quick – stick the ice cream in the oven and blast the heat.”

Rating: 5.3/10 (3 votes cast)

Sell High

“Today was the best day of my entire life!” Glen exclaimed with the grin of a madman before stabbing the dagger straight into his heart.
We shouldn’t have been surprised; he had always preached a sell-high mentality.

Rating: 7.8/10 (6 votes cast)

Love Done Sour

There’s nothing in this world I want more than you. What a shitty world I must live in.

Rating: 9.0/10 (14 votes cast)

Who would have thought?

It began to snow, a rainbow peaked through the thick fog, and then a few porpoises splashed and surfaced briefly for air, all while the cruise ship slowly drifted by a huge glacier tucked in between two Chilean peaks. I had never thought a scene like this could exist, but then again, I had never believed in vampires either, and now I was sharing a cabin with one.

Rating: 5.4/10 (5 votes cast)

On this Path

After decades of intensive data collection, analysis and research, scientists have concluded that there are precisely seven quadrillion, nine hundred and sixty-six trillion, five hundred and thirty-eight billion, one hundred and seventy-two million, two hundred and eighty-nine thousand, five hundred and fifty-four different paths a human being can choose to go down. So now I really must ask myself, out of all those paths, what the hell did I do to end up on this one?

Rating: 7.7/10 (6 votes cast)

Home Sweet Home?

Without realizing it, he had grown to hate everything that he once so desperately missed. The home he thought he was at long last returning to proved to be nothing more than a rude awakening to the fact that this was no longer where he belonged.

Rating: 6.7/10 (7 votes cast)