Obama stood tall at the podium, reading his speech to the millions of hopeful gatherers.
In his grave Martin dropped the chains of his earthly plane, rose up to the light, his work finally finished, his dream alive.
Author: twosentencestories
Gone
We were out in the woods “did you see that?” “did you hear that?” she would ask, I saw nothing, I heard nothing. As we ran deeper into the woods it got darker and darker, I asked “did you hear that?” I was alone, he got her.
“Free”
One of them would be free.
The other one would spend the next twenty years writing his memoirs, a best seller, implicating the one who was “free”.
Love?
“Love is obsession–”
“–Reciprocated.”
Missing stories
Can’t find my stories Muse and Last Night. Are they gone from Two sentence and should I take them out of my website?
Missing stories
Can’t find my stories Muse and Last Night. Are they gone from Two sentence and should I take them out of my website?
The Wanderer
The big orange cat tiptoed along the top rail of the fence, all the while watching the yapping Chihuahua on the ground below and anticipating reaching the next yard, where the elderly woman waited with a tasty morsel she had saved just for him, after which he continued his outing to the field where he watched robins pulling fat worms from the damp ground and dreamed of robin for supper, then completed his journey back home to his favorite nap spot.
“Tom, you lazy cat,” she said as she arrived home from work, “I’ll bet you have been sleeping there in the sun all day, haven’t you?”
Why
“Why?” I aksed my mother curiously
“Because I said so,” she replied.
Confrontation
After seventeen long days of a trial that had been postponed for two long and brutal years, she finally had her chance to ask the defendant one question that has been burned in her brain since the day she found his body.
“Who the hell gave you the right to play God with my father’s life?” she screamed, crying, as she swatted the taste clean out of the murderer’s mouth.
The Damned, About To Study Why
“All right class, before we turn on our screens and hear about the great pipeline disaster of 2037, I need you to reach under your seats and bring out your particulate masks. Make sure they’re tight, because Weatherman Jim has predicted a level seven fall this afternoon, and we don’t want any of that nasty stuff to get in our little lungs, now do we?”
The Angel’s Briefing
In the queue for existence, the Antichrist missed being born a human by one space, and instead was born a mosquito. He was smited by a roaming insecticide sprayer in the month of May, in the year of our Lord 2008.
Aussie Man, American Woman
He came from the land down under, to an unfamiliar life in the countryside of a new land full of love and understanding which turned to apprehension. Looking in the mirror one day, he said this is not for me so he left that life and just down the road, he met the love of his life and found his salvation in an American woman.
Now that’s what I call potential
“Just my luck that all the soccer moms are dads nowadays, and they still drive minivans,” he bitched to his son as he parked while wiping the foam halo left on his beard from the paper-wrapped tallboy. Maybe I’ll get lucky he thought to himself as he exited his red Chevy Astro,doing his best to hide his “lucky” boner.
The Long Flight
The flight seemed to take forever and one of the chicks was getting quite annoyed.
Finally, after 20 hours of flying south, the ducks arrived safe and tired in their nest.
Letting Go
She took the training wheels off of her daughter’s bicycle that morning, knowing she would have to give her a push later to get started and then let her child ride or fall, while she held her breath, watching.
“Wheeeeeee, Mom, this is fun!”
Humble Pie
Jogging down the trail, in the green of spring, I saw a beautiful cluster of butterflies in the path. As they gracefully fluttered off at my approach a startled laugh escaped at the realization that even a butterfly’s got to eat a little crap now and then.
The Ironic Move
She waited 15 years to finally have stability and even begged her husband to get a stable job so she could get out of God forsaken Wales – a beautiful country with hardly any crime. Unfortunately, they wound up moving to Houston – an ugly city with nothing but crime.
The English Alphabet
The English Alphabet
There are two absolutes that are brought to bare on the written English Alphabet. Who, specifically, determined the 26 symbols for writing it and its infinitesimal usage.
Sleep
I found pictures of me sleeping on my phone. Ilive alone.
Sleep
I found pictures of me sleeping on my phone. Ilive alone.