Tell me a horror story in two sentences

Hellolost · **Joined:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:58 am **Posts:** 2120

I was reading on reddit and found this question. I wondered what you guys could come up with. Here is a few of my favorites......

I can't move, breath, speak or hear and it's so dark all the time. If I knew it would be this lonely, I would have been cremated instead.

They celebrated the first successful cryogenic freezing. He had no way of letting them know he was still conscious.

I wish I could remember whose these people are. They tell me I have Alzheimers.

My daughter won't stop crying and screaming in the middle of the night. I visit her grave and ask her to stop, but it doesn't help.

lostcase · **Joined:** Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:55 pm **Posts:** 420

Amanda came home early. And saw the state of the house.

BrentJenkins · **Posted:** Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:37 pm

There's always the classic "shortest horror story in the world":

The last man alive sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.

Or something to that effect. Can't remember the exact wording.

Craig Cook · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:25 pm **Posts:** 5637

I have both a Spanish written exam and oral exam on Monday. Oh, and a Spanish final on Wednesday.

JamesEverington · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:35 am

She pointed to the dusty floorboards and told them this was where the murder had happened. She told them and told them, but none of them could hear her.

ttzuma · **Joined:** Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:15 pm **Posts:** 13517

She tried to scream. Thing was, she had no mouth.

(Sorry, it was the first thing that popped into my head).

Jazminsdaddy · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:30 am

Hellolost · **Joined:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:58 am **Posts:** 2120

KealanPatrick · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 2:17 pm

We mourn for those we've lost, yet all of us are here.

ttzuma · **Joined:** Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:15 pm **Posts:** 13517

Very original (for me anyway), and very good!

Craig Cook · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:25 pm **Posts:** 5637

ttzuma · **Joined:** Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:15 pm **Posts:** 13517

Blame Harlan Ellison. It was the first thing that came into my mind when I saw James post and I jotted it down. I've always LOVED Ellison's title.

KealanPatrick · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:03 pm

Tony: I think they were poking fun at your response to my post:

"Very original (for me anyway), and very good!"

Jazminsdaddy · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:09 pm

It's over! The Red Sox win the World Series!

JJHolden · **Joined:** Sat Apr 23, 2011 1:25 am **Posts:** 1712

Jazminsdaddy · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:12 pm

I plunged the scissors,again and again, into the devil doll. My husband came home and screamed, how could you do that to our daughter?

Craig Cook · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:25 pm **Posts:** 5637

ttzuma · **Joined:** Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:15 pm **Posts:** 13517

Oh, don't be sorry, I thought you were having some fun, the

was my first clue

. I wasn't upset, just explaining where I got the idea for the phrase.

Though...confusion will be my epitaph...

ttzuma · **Joined:** Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:15 pm **Posts:** 13517

Hellolost · **Joined:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:58 am **Posts:** 2120

JamesEverington · **Posted:** Fri Jul 26, 2013 3:18 am

I probably cheated a bit, as it was a slightly shortened version of a story I'd already written for an anthology where the stories had to be 100 words or less... So it wasn't spontaneous, sorry!

Jazminsdaddy · **Posted:** Fri Jul 26, 2013 9:09 am

I'm devastated by your deception. Have you no shame, sir?

ttzuma · **Joined:** Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:15 pm **Posts:** 13517

You can't trust horror authors! Any of them! Even the ones you like!

JamesEverington · **Posted:** Fri Jul 26, 2013 10:09 am

Craig Cook · **Joined:** Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:25 pm **Posts:** 5637

Horrordude hissed in pain as the branding iron connected with his skin, first stinging, then blistering, then finally melting in with his rump, iron and flesh becoming one, with a smell like overcooked bacon permeating the room. "Now you shall feel the true Wrath of Kalanta," his tormentor said, and shoved the brand in deeper.

ichorous · **Joined:** Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:52 pm **Posts:** 183

He worked on the cuticle, pulling it with his oversized incisor. It pulled back.

VictorV · **Joined:** Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:59 pm **Posts:** 1371

New roommate.

JJHolden · **Joined:** Sat Apr 23, 2011 1:25 am **Posts:** 1712

The creature turned and saw me hiding in the elevator, and while the rest of my body froze, my fingers began to hammer stupidly and repeatedly on the 'close' button. The lights went out; I couldn't see but I heard the doors close and my surroundings grew small and I realized I was in the dark and I wasn't alone.

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