Two Sentence Horror Stories

1.

When a woman grabbed my arm with a strained smile, her eyes darting to a prowling man behind us, I immediately pretended I knew her.

People forget women can be kidnappers too.

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2.

My door busts open with a BANG, and the footsteps of intruders hammer through my hallways.

Figures; it's been a few years since the last troop of ghost-hunters died.

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3.

The sun slips over the horizon.

I thought gravity was supposed to hold the universe together.

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4.

Thought "centi" means one hundred, centipedes can have anywhere from fifteen to one hundred seventy-seven pairs of legs.

Hiding beneath the rubble as an army of ground-shaking footsteps march past, I can count every single leg.

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5.

My mother kindly sewed my doll's mouth.

I can still hear it.

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6.

Parents tell all sorts of lies.

Santa is real, if you don't wash behind your ear's you'll grow mushrooms, and mascots are men in costumes, not living things.