Category: Two Sentence Stories

The ocean is blue because of the sky.
They had a really bad breakup.

The puppet withered under the harsh glare of the puppet master.
“It’s tap, step, tap, step step, you buffoon,” he said.

I can’t believe they actually have a section titles “Suits”.
How insulting for a job to be referred as such.

I know it appears that I’m just a corporate shill whose empty barren existence is an insult to generations of ancestors.
(I’m secretly bringing the system down from the inside!)

I went walking with your soon-to-be-husband because I wanted to know if he was right for you.
Sadly, I discovered you are not right for him.

She called me beautiful sometimes.
Other times she called me a piece of meat.

My parents got the long convoluted reasons why I quit my job.

My friends got the short version: the Swedish girl.

I don’t really have any inner demons.
I’ve got inner lemons though.

Let’s be naughty, she lied.
I’m going to spank you, he lied.

I’ll betcha this happened at Jedi school a lot.
“Whya hitting yourself?”

Hey Gods out there – just wanted to let you know something.
Oh, wait, there’s no one there.

So you were lonely and I was bored and on we went.
Then you got bored and now I’m lonely.

We played the poison game, each time delaying the gulping of antidote.
One of us is going to win pretty soon.

Once I got lost in a huge shopping centre.
They found me pretty quickly but next time they won’t be so lucky.

Find the inspiration and the hope and the joy and the application and combine them all together.
Hope to find somewhere to sell the result before you find the sloth and the greed and the bottle and the endless wasted days.