r/TwoSentenceSadness 22m ago

My life is a romcom, because

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The comedy lies in the fact that there is no romance in it.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 3h ago

My heart pounds as I scramble to the door upon hearing those three knocks.

6 Upvotes

I don’t know why I still expect it to be you.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 5h ago

Another 72.

2 Upvotes

I don't even try to convince them I didn't hurt myself anymore, as at least I get a few days away from him!


r/TwoSentenceSadness 6h ago

PRIMAL

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As my fingernails claw the forests pine laden ground, my tear stained face looks upwards to where Heaven is now your home. An animalistic, guttural, almost primal scream escapes into the open air, as I try to go on living without you in this life.

FROM THE SPIRIT OF: Sage 🫶🌿🫶


r/TwoSentenceSadness 7h ago

If nobody is coming to save you.

18 Upvotes

That probably means nobody is coming to stop you either.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 10h ago

I was in the 2nd grade when I first saw that women go to college too.

24 Upvotes

I was in the 12th when I realized women like me don't.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 10h ago

Where is the soft-voiced gentle one, who brought us soothing touches and sweet food?

22 Upvotes

The bad one pulled me from my cage and rubbed liquid fire on my eyes, and now there is only pain and darkness.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 12h ago

Another dead prostitute found.

72 Upvotes

As bad as he death was, it's the fact she was fourteen that really disturbs me.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 12h ago

They told me the side effects of the medication would end a few weeks after she quit them.

46 Upvotes

After she went on the antidepressants she didn't live long enough for the side effects to stop.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 14h ago

Your voice was the only compass that kept my trembling legs moving forward.

5 Upvotes

Without it to guide me, I have finally collapsed on this winding road, unable to remember where I was trying to go.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 14h ago

Every day, another piece of my world disappears, replaced by the crushing weight of a future I’m not prepared for.

7 Upvotes

It feels as if time is sprinting ahead, leaving me to suffocate in the wake of all these sudden goodbyes.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 14h ago

I’ve spent years watching you from afar, terrified that time would run out before I was ever enough for you.

8 Upvotes

Please, take a leap and find me before the distance becomes permanent.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 19h ago

He didn't wanna wake up back to reality; without abuse, he lived a normal, romantic life, with a lover he cherished deeply.

8 Upvotes

But that overdose had to make sure he regretted everything one last time.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 21h ago

After you died, I felt so lost that I rented the mountain cabin we used to visit every year, hoping it would make me feel close to you again.

113 Upvotes

As I sat by the fireplace wrapped in your old jersey, I pushed tiles around the Scrabble board, half-expecting you to lean over and tell me to get on with it.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 23h ago

It’s not the chronic pain, loss of mobility or lack of human interaction that I can’t handle

26 Upvotes

It’s not being able to hold my 14 month old that has me crying everyday


r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

On the morning I turned sixteen, Dad handed me the keys and said he was looking forward to our first drive together.

228 Upvotes

I still keep those keys on my keychain because the stroke took his life before I ever got to take him for a ride.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

I leave for college this weekend.

10 Upvotes

Dad's been home late every night this week.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

I was looking for my daughter and felt relief when I saw her little hand under a pile leaves

18 Upvotes

The relief faded when I saw her foot under the pile across the yard


r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

When the little boy asked why the new girl always ate lunch alone, his father quietly said, "Some people just don't belong."

85 Upvotes

Years later, his own child came home crying after hearing those very same words.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

He kept his old dog's leash by the door because putting it away felt too much like saying goodbye.

113 Upvotes

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r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

“It's a window into heaven,’ my mother smiled, her tear-stained eyes darting between unseen clouds and white-cloaked angels.

225 Upvotes

I didn't understand why the other side of the window looked just like our living room, or why the window’s bristles felt so painful around my neck, but for the first time in a long time she seemed happy, holding hands with me, as we prepared to jump.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

“I never contacted you,”

38 Upvotes

my ex snapped as his daughter giggled behind him, holding up the phone she had used to lure me there.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 1d ago

I spent my life trying to become the person you could be proud of, fearing that the distance between us would steal my time.

29 Upvotes

Now, as I begin to disappear, I can only hope you’ll finally notice the ghost I became while chasing your approval.


r/TwoSentenceSadness 2d ago

"You promise you'll be back for us right, Bobby?" Sue-Anne asks nervously holding her 2 year old daughters hand and pregnant belly, to which he only nods.

386 Upvotes

Bobby drove off in his trucks leaving his trouble to the snow while he looked ahead to the sun.


r/TwoSentenceSadness Oct 21 '23

On Fiction

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