Two Sentence Horror Stories

1. In my dream last night, I saw a grave plot with my name on the

tombstone. I woke up this morning, relieved, and decided to pinch myself,
but I couldnt move my arms underneath the compact dirt.

Told through first-person narration, this two sentence horror story describes a brief
experience of a person who has a slightly troubling dream and wakes up realizing
that the dream has, in actuality, already occurred. In the first sentence, although
the event itself is slightly off-putting, the statement is relatively idiomatic for those
who recall the happenings of their bizarre dreams to their friends or acquaintances.
The second sentence carries the audience to the present moment, in which, through
what the narrator describes as relieved, allows the audience to assume that the
dream did not actually occur, as all dreams typically dont. The morbidity of the first
event reoccurs beginning with the clause but, which introduces the possibility that
the dream did occur. When the narrator explains that she cannot move her arms
underneath the compact dirt, the audience must assume that the dream did, in
fact, occur, due to the context that surrounds compact dirt, which implies that the
narrator is lying underneath the ground.

2. The townspeople didnt believe it when the police department

announced that the girl passed away a few nights ago due to natural
causes. I couldnt believe it either; she was perfectly healthy the night I
put the bag over her head.
Also recounted in first-person narration, this two sentence horror story recalls a
tragic event in which a girl was recently deceased. The dubious state of the
townspeople allows the audience to also question the validity of the polices
statement. The first person narration does not occur until the second sentence, in
which the narrator agrees with the townspeople; this adds to the mystery of the
true cause of the girls death while simultaneously drawing the audience further in
to find out why the narrator doubts the polices statement. Although the narrator
reveals her reasoning in the next clause, that she was perfectly healthy, the tone
of the sentence shifts from idiomatic to sinister with the words the night I put the
bag over her head. The audience is left to conclude that the narrator killed the girl
and escaped justice.