Maxed Out at Two Lines -- Horror Stories

One recent snow day, the intrepid students of creative writing who managed the trek into school held a Two Sentence Horror Story competition. Here are the results (posted with permission of the authors).

 The runners-up were:

It always bothered me that I never returned my grandmother’s brooch before she died. That is, until she came and got it herself.

--Dom Kent

“Jump in, Colin!” I ran toward the cliff and hurled myself off the ledge, staring at the pool of blood and organs that was fast approaching.

--Lynn Reicker

My brother never tasted chocolate before he died. Now I feed him some every day.

--Philip Drost

And the winner?

I never had any daddy issues, until I found his body in my bed….

--Jeremy Altman