Things that rhyme are stupid.
Like you, for example.
Category: Two Sentence Stories
Carved buttons
He didn’t like the Mona Lisa.
He wanted to be remembered for his carved buttons.
Harder
When I agreed to do it I thought he had said “lawnmowing”.
He actually said lawnmoving, which is way way harder.
Tolerance
My tolerance for it increased so rapidly that it actually scared me.
In the end I was buying, like, three Faberge eggs a day.
In love
The great thing about being in love is that you don’t have a lot of conversations about being in love.
That you wanted to talk about it the other night gives me pause.
Question
Check out this bit of paper.
The answer to a question no one asked.
Black hole
Inside a black hole the forces are so extreme that time and space itself comes apart.
Yes I threw your stupid comics in there – you never read them!
Satisfying
Knowing that you’ll eventually come crawling back is very satisfying.
Throwing snails over the fence again.
Mind
You’re not the last thing on my mind.
You’re around the high three thousands.
Collection
Is it just me or is a collection of any critical mass just creepy?
Ceramic puppies, monkey toys, keychains, spoons, machetes.
Pray
I pray to robot god.
I know I’m a disgusting meat machine but I can do better!
King
The King of the Eyesores visited our town today in his carriage of mouldy meat.
We threw eggs, rotten fruit and toxic waste, as we’re meant to.
Titanic
I wasn’t crying!
I had too much water to drink and my emergency water overload system kicked in and it just happened to be at the end of Titanic, ok?
Confirmation
I am in love with you.
Awaiting confirmation.
Sharia rock
Yeah, rock that guitar.
Sharia law hits hard.
Awoke
I awoke on a pool table in the middle of a crowded bar.
As usual, I got up, made my pool table, and went to work.
Fly
I commanded my dog to sit, and he did.
Fly!
Flirt
While you were gone we would flirt with flirting, pretend touches and exquisite silences.
When you came back we pretended nothing happened at all.
Whatev
Say yes and we’ll run away together.
Or whatev.
Retirement
When you said “attention everyone” I thought for a second you would actually say something interesting.
Like about how the guy leaving was a horrible person to work with, an insufferable bore and many of us there would happily kill him if we thought we could get away with it.