<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><div>Courtesy of <a href="http://news.com.au">News.com.au</a> (Sydney, Australia) at:</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><a href="http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/halloween-horror-stories-that-are-just-two-sentences-long/story-fnjwnhzf-1227589277937">http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/halloween-horror-stories-that-are-just-two-sentences-long/story-fnjwnhzf-1227589277937</a></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">---------------------------------</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div class="story-intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(41, 41, 41); font-family: 'Unit Slab Pro Bold', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 41px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">20 Halloween horror stories that are just two sentences long</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">WHAT’S that you say? Halloween doesn’t freak you out?</span></p></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It sure as hell will after you read what’s coming.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A couple of years ago, Reddit users challenged each other to come up a damn good horror story in two sentences.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The results were brilliant. Frighteningly brilliant. So brilliant, in fact, that we decided to dredge them out in celebration of the scariest day of the year.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Here is a list of the 20 best ones we could find. Be warned — you probably won’t sleep tonight when you’re done with them.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Miami — Metro: </span>“Growing up with cats and dogs, I got used to the sounds of scratching at my door while I slept. Now that I live alone, it is much more unsettling.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">justAnotherMuffledVo: </span>I begin tucking him into bed and he tells me, “Daddy check for monsters under my bed.” I look underneath for his amusement and see him, another him, under the bed, staring back at me quivering and whispering, “Daddy there’s somebody on my bed.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">BitterSimplicity: </span>Yesterday my parents told me I was too old for an imaginary friend and that I had to let her go. They found her body this morning.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Graboid27: </span>I can’t move, breathe, 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.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">guztaluz: </span>There was a picture in my phone of me sleeping. I live alone.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">jmperson: </span>The last thing I saw was my alarm clock flashing 12:07 before she pushed her long rotting nails through my chest, her other hand muffling my screams.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I sat bolt upright, relieved it was only a dream, but as I saw my alarm clock read 12:06, I heard my closet door creak open.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">CakeIsAMeme: </span>You know that weird, full-body twitch you get sometimes when you’re falling asleep? If there was a camera pointed at you, and you saw what it captured at that moment, you’d never sleep again.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Horseseverywhere: </span>It sat on my shelf, with thoughtless porcelain eyes and the prettiest pink doll dress I could find. Why did she have to be born still?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">harshcougar: </span>Being buried alive was bad enough. Realising I wasn’t alone in my own grave was worse.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Calamitosity: </span>She asked why I was breathing so heavily. I wasn’t.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">deleted: </span>You get home, tired after a long day’s work and ready for a relaxing night alone. You reach for the light switch, but another hand is already there.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">StoryTellerBob: </span>I kiss my wife and daughter goodnight before I go to sleep. When I wake up, I’m in a padded room and the nurses tell me it was just a dream.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">hctet:</span> Working the night shift alone tonight. There is a face in the cellar staring at the security camera.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">skuppy: </span>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.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">anonymous — abc: </span>You start to drift off into a comfortable sleep when you hear your name being whispered. You live alone.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">TLFMOD: </span>The funeral attendees never came out of the catacombs. Something locked the crypt door from the inside.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The — D — String: </span>My wife woke me up last night to tell me there was an intruder in our house. She was murdered by an intruder 2 years ago.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">comparativelysane: </span>You hear your mum calling you into the kitchen. As you are heading down the stairs you hear a whisper from the closet saying “Don’t go down there honey, I heard it too.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">hangukbrian: </span>I always thought my cat had a staring problem, she always seemed fixated on my face. Until one day, when I realised that she was always looking just behind me.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Scry67: </span>The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It just goes to show it’s not always about quantity. And with that, good luck ever managing to get to sleep again.</span></p></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">---------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>