I recently spotted a few two-sentence horror stories and was enjoying reading them. So I wanted to try writing one of my own.
One of the first that came to me was based on a poem I wrote and had published years ago. I suppose it's okay to re-adapt my own writing into this new form.
So, here's the first two-sentence horror story I came up with:
She has her Daddy’s hair
And with it his whole scalp
She hacked it off with a dull steak knife
But knew a sharper one might help
She has the rest of her Daddy’s parts
Stored in an air-tight drum
She fancies herself a Daddy’s girl
But she looks more like her Mum
But enough of the original poem and back to the two-sentence horror tale.
Do you have a favorite two-sentence horror story to share?
One of the first that came to me was based on a poem I wrote and had published years ago. I suppose it's okay to re-adapt my own writing into this new form.
So, here's the first two-sentence horror story I came up with:
"She has her daddy's eyes. In a jar up in her room."
This two-sentence horror story is derived from a poem I wrote called "Daddy's Girl" and which was originally published in Everyday Weirdness in 2009. The two first lines of the poem came to me many many years ago as a quick and dark humor punch-line that I later morphed into a poem (below) - but I figured: why not re-adapt it back to those first two sentences?
Daddy's Girl
By Mark Leslie
She has her Daddy’s eyes
In a jar up in her room
It took a while to dig them out
Because she’d used a spoon
In a jar up in her room
It took a while to dig them out
Because she’d used a spoon
And with it his whole scalp
She hacked it off with a dull steak knife
But knew a sharper one might help
She has the rest of her Daddy’s parts
Stored in an air-tight drum
She fancies herself a Daddy’s girl
But she looks more like her Mum
But enough of the original poem and back to the two-sentence horror tale.
Do you have a favorite two-sentence horror story to share?
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