r/TwoSentenceHorror 2d ago

April announcement and March Winners!

6 Upvotes

Hey horror fans,

Welcome to April!

If it seems weird or foolish that I'm only just now welcoming you to the month 4 days after it started, well....

I don't really have anything to say for myself.

Unlike everybody's favorite wizard, I'm late.

And I'm sorry.

... I know, sorry probably doesn't cut it.

I understand, for those who've been expecting the announcement of last month's winners: You may be feeling outraged by the set back.

I understand, for those who've been looking forward to this month's prompt, I have likely earned your ire.

I understand, for those who've been eagerly awaiting a chance to re-read our policy announcements about Rule 14, shitposts, permabans, and spoiler tags, you may be understandably livid about this delay.

And the delay is all my fault.

I have let down each and every one of you.

Again I apologize. But my apology does not assuage my guilt, nor should it soften your fury.

Instead, channel your righteous anger into a great story!

Our prompt this month is WRATH!

Wrath, the grouchiest of the seven deadly sins!

Check out our contest guidelines further down for full details!

But first, our monthly announcement:

IMPORTANT:

Stories that are horrifying only because of their shock value are not permitted. Stories incorporating shock elements are still allowed but stories that have no horror elements besides shock value will be removed, under rule 14!

You can find some example stories to illustrate rule 14 violations in last month's announcement (here)

Further announcements:

  • Avoid posting content that makes reference to current politics! Lately we've had to remove lots of posts as per rules 6 and 12!
  • We're seeing lots of "Subscription service to life" stories popping up now, to the point where this theme has become a trope! Revisit the overused trope sections here.
  • We continue to remove content that has to do with: forced or coerced sex, sexual assault, sexual mutilation, and gratuitous violence for violence's sake. If your story might come across as fetishy or torture porn, it's probably running afoul of rules 5,7,8, and 14-- and possibly others!
  • Obvious trolls and💩-posters will still be permabanned! Please report obvious shitposts. Read more here.
  • Be familiar with our Three Strikes and you're out rule -- egregious rule breaks will typically get you a strike. If you earn a 🔴, it will take 60 days of chill to clean it up. Read more here.
  • And a reminder, spoiler tags as a formatting gimmick do not fit the sub. We unmark spoiler marked stories, and may remove repeat offenders.
  • And of course, feel free to reach out in modmail with any questions!

APRIL 2025 Contest Prompt:

WRATH!

We want to see stories that encapsulate unbridled rage and its horrifying consequences. Show us uncontrollable anger and the evils that may follow.

For your story to be considered valid, one or more of your characters must demonstrate WRATH.

You do not need to use the specific word, and may consider any number of synonyms, as long as its clear beyond any shadow of a doubt that anger plays a central part in your story.

Good luck and have fun!

MARCH 2025 Contest Rules

  • Theme: "wrath"
  • Tag: [APR25] or [apr25]
  • Submissions that are improperly formatted, do not fit the theme, or break any of the existing sub rules will be disqualified and removed.
  • The top 10 highest-voted stories will be the winners!
  • Contestants can only place in the top 10 once. The highest of your ranked entries will be tallied against other participants to determine our winners.
  • Only net new stories will be allowed (no repurposing old stories you've previously submitted).
  • Max three stories per day as a general rule, and all three can be used towards the contest.
  • Winners will be decided by total community upvotes. In the unlikely event of a tie for the top spots, moderators will vote for a tiebreaker.

We look forward to seeing what you come up with!

Properly formatted April 2025 examples (These stories would actually be removed for their content, as per rules 1, 8, and 7 respectively):

[APR25] When that one random jack-ass of a mod posted the monthly announcement 4 days late, I felt such fury boiling up inside me that my head exploded.

[APR25] I wrote a wrath themed story that should have won the April contest, but reddit glitched and deleted my post! I'm sitting here shaking with rage and my only available recourse is to go on a murder spree.

Improperly formatted examples:

[APRIL 2025] Now my flawless story is going to be disqualified for improper formatting. I've never been more livid towards myself for messing up something so simple.

[APR25] This time the tag is correct because April is abbreviated and there's no space between the month and the year, I'm probably still gonna lose the contest because I'm not doing a good job of communicating a sense of anger, also there's too many clauses here and they should be separated by periods, ultimately this story should be removed as per rules 1,2, and 3.

WINNERS WILL RECEIVE:

1st, 2nd, and 3rd Places: You receive a custom personal flair of your choosing to show off to the TSH community! (If you're a repeat winner, you can modify your flair.... but that's it.) And a cool fancy flair on your winning stories.

7 honorable mentions: you'll get visibility and bragging rights! Story links will be featured in next month’s announcement.

Contest ends on April 30th, 2025 @ 11:59pm (GMT)

Any questions should be made below in the comments, within our discord, or a note on modmail.

***

Congrats to our March Winners! Great stories all!

Theme was "Betrayal"

Great job, winners! If you placed in the top three, contact us via modmail for your personalized custom flair! It can be anything (within reason): a mixture of text and emoji, up to 20 characters. If you've won before, you can request to change your flair, or, just do nothing. Absolutely nothing....

And for our runners-up:

4th place by LivesUnderARoc

5th place by movingstasis 

6th place by Wyddelbower

7th place by 13thmurder

8th place by flanneur

9th place by the-sleepy-potato

10th place by WatchOut4possums

Congrats to all!


r/TwoSentenceHorror Oct 22 '23

⭐ANNOUNCEMENT⭐ [PLEASE READ] Sh!tposts, permabans, and literally 1984.

468 Upvotes

This is all dumb.

For the past several months, the sub has experienced a flood of intentionally poor quality stories in an effort to get onto parody subs and TikToks. We've historically hit you with a strike (🔴) and if you received three, you were permabanned (check out the wiki).

However, if you've submitted one of these stories in the recent past, you may have noticed that your account was permabanned from TwoSentenceHorror without going through the strike process. While we've made this current one-and-done rule known within each of our monthly announcements for forever, we felt it was only fair to have a separate post to lay out the approach.

If you intentionally submit a poor quality story (we're looking at you "meat worm" and "killer guy" crews), you will be permabanned with no warning.

If and when these posts chill out, the mod team will reconsider this rule. Until then, please continue to report these intentional poor quality stories, read the sub rules, and submit awesome, horrifying tales to maintain the quality of the sub!


r/TwoSentenceHorror 5h ago

The bride stared angrily at her sister and hissed, “She’s bright orange — she’s going ruin my photoshoot.”

647 Upvotes

“Just be thankful your liver is healthy,” her mother replied.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 11h ago

The first time I ate for coin, they stuffed my mouth with funeral cakes molded from his fat and rubbed ash into my eyes so I'd see his filth as mine.

1.7k Upvotes

That night, I shit out a black serpent with his voice, and it coiled around my spine and whispered every sin he ever got away with—so I wouldn't.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 13h ago

"Son, if you don't want to end up like him," my dad said, nodding toward the hobo on the side of the road, "study hard."

2.4k Upvotes

I nodded, silently hoping he'd pay for college — so I don't have to join the military too.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 9h ago

After the burglar struck me in the back, all I could do was lie there before my babies crib.

613 Upvotes

I don't know how many days it's been, but the only sounds left are my own.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 10h ago

"Of course I forgive you, honey," I said to my wife after she begged forgiveness for her adultery.

536 Upvotes

As we tenderly embraced, I jammed the knife into her back and softly whispered in her ear; "April fools."


r/TwoSentenceHorror 15h ago

After the astrologer told her that her son would take countless lives she decided to kill her son.

1.2k Upvotes

While the Earth in her reality was enslaved by the aliens, in an alternate reality her grown up son led a resistance and defeated the hostile aliens.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 10h ago

You realize at your friend’s birthday party that you don’t remember your own birthdate and you’ve never celebrated it.

285 Upvotes

You go home and dig up your birth certificate to find out that it’s stamped by Boston Dynamics and Open AI.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 10h ago

[APR25] Face to face with the man who murdered his daughter, he hurled a punch and roared, "YOU DESERVE TO ROT IN HELL!!"

261 Upvotes

"Code white, wing B", chimed the speaker, as the nurses rushed in to drag him from the bloodied mirror.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 14h ago

Sarah my love, they would have to beat me to death before I told them it was y…

513 Upvotes

SARAAHHHHH IT WAS SARRAHHHH! I screamed, as the man lifted the whip to take the first strike at my exposed genitalia


r/TwoSentenceHorror 9h ago

I knew the second the door opened that it was my dad ready to take out his drunken rage on me again, so I swung the bat before he got inside.

181 Upvotes

"I was afraid and thought I could sleep in your bed," my little brother said as he bled out in my arms on the floor.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 7h ago

“Such pretty blue eyes you got from your mother,” the old woman cooed at the baby.

116 Upvotes

“This will be my finest doll yet with such fine materials,” she says with a hum, fetching her spoon to pluck them out.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 15h ago

In the year 2067, the government will give you $500 if you let them run brain tests while you relive your worst memory.

406 Upvotes

As they hook me up and strap me in, the woman whispers in my ear, "Sir, it seems as though you don't have a memory that's bad enough, so we're gonna have to create one now."


r/TwoSentenceHorror 15h ago

A crow with a note in it's beak was banging on the lady's kitchen window, she went outside to scare it away.

341 Upvotes

A sharp blade stabbed her in the back, as the crow flew off dropping the note "Don't open the door".


r/TwoSentenceHorror 9h ago

"Your home is so pretty," said the fly.

108 Upvotes

"I know," responded the spider.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 23h ago

Just like we’d practiced, my wife confirmed that our son was in bed.

1.0k Upvotes

It wasn’t until the noise subsided that she yelled back, “no, it’s just pillows”.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 2h ago

“Thanks for giving me a scam to reject, loser.” the text message read.

22 Upvotes

I cried reading it; I’ve already been held captive for eight months, and with every scam rejected, I get just a little further away from being able to buy my way out of this dingy place.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 1h ago

After reading a news article about a kidnapper in my area, I was terrified when I saw someone in my backyard.

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I couldn't believe one of them managed to escape.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 11h ago

The first Shoggoth was created when an eternally ravenous wendigo was fed perpetually replicating "grey goo" nanomachines.

112 Upvotes

He now eats himself out of existence, then vomits himself back into it.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 2h ago

I’ve been running for hours from the strange demon-like beings that roam these woods.

20 Upvotes

As I find myself cornered, I realize they’re wearing the tattered clothes of my missing parents.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 52m ago

The sleep paralysis demon I’ve seen for years finally spoke today

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"I’m not the one holding you down, I’m the one keeping them from pulling you under", it said.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 13h ago

Recent changes to state laws have eliminated age discrimination in employment, which provides more opportunities for young people to work.

141 Upvotes

If you cannot afford your child’s school lunches, they will have the option of spending their summer working off your debt on one of our farms or in one of our meat packing facilities.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 1d ago

"What a beautiful name", the family friend said as she held the baby.

1.8k Upvotes

She raised her phone for a quick selfie, then the poor thing slipped and plunged headfirst onto the concrete floor.


r/TwoSentenceHorror 4h ago

When the banging on my front door finally stopped, I breathed a sigh of relief.

22 Upvotes

It had been hours, but he knew the rules of his curfew, no matter the temperature outside.