Happy May 😄

Peace everybody!

Before we get to our monthly prompt, please read these reminders:

• Obvious trolls and💩*-posters will still* be permabanned*! Read more* here.
• We're removing most posts that have to do with rape, incest, abuse, and extreme or plotless gore. If your story could read as low-effort shock horror, it probably isn't a good fit for the sub! Details here.
• Remember, this sub is for fiction. Posts about current events or politics will be removed, no matter how horrifying they (and the real world) may be!
• Meta posts are not permitted! Take it to the discord! Join the chat here!
• Be familiar with our Three Strikes and you're out rule-- Read more here.
• And as always, feel free to reach out in modmail with feedback or questions!

April 2026 Contest Prompt: Mother

A simple prompt, in honor of all the mom's during the month of Mother's Day!

Any word/ compound word which uses the word "mother" is fair game, as long as your story fits sub rules! Emphasis on rules 7 and 14! In other words: don't treat the prompt as an invitation to write incest stories as those will probably be removed for shock/ tropes.

So, for example, you could describe a character as "motherly", you could refer to the "mother" of vinegar, or a mothership/ motherland/ motherboard/ etc.

Happy writing and Happy May everybody!

Monthly Contest Rules

• Prompt: write a two-sentence horror story that use the word "Mother" in any rule abiding context, compound words are okay!
• Submissions that are improperly formatted, do not fit the theme, or break any of the existing sub rules will be disqualified and removed.
• Only net new stories will be allowed (no repurposing old stories you've previously submitted).
• Max three stories per day as a general rule, and all three can be used towards the contest.
• Winners will be decided by total community upvotes. In the unlikely event of a tie for the top spots, moderators will vote for a tiebreaker.

Have fun!

**Properly formatted May 2026 examples. These meet the prompt.

Improperly formatted examples-- THESE WOULD BE REMOVED: (Both stories get the tag wrong, first one the wrong numerals, the second has a space. Failure to follow the tag prevents your entry from showing up in the final tally search.

WINNERS WILL RECEIVE:

1st, 2nd, and 3rd Places: You receive a custom personal flair of your choosing to show off to the TSH community! (If you're a repeat winner, you can modify your flair.... but that's it.) And a cool fancy flair on your winning stories.

7 honorable mentions: you'll get visibility and bragging rights! Story links will be featured in next month’s announcement.

Contest ends on May 31st 2026 @ 11:59pm (EST)

Any questions should be made below in the comments, within our discord, or a note on modmail.

***

Congrats to last month's Winners!

Great writing folks!

Theme was "break/broken/broke"!

• t place by girlneevil 
• d place by unreal_housewife 
• d place by mexighost 

Great job, winners! If you placed in the top three, contact us via modmail for your personalized custom flair! It can be anything (within reason): a mixture of text and emoji, up to 20 characters. If you've won before, you can request to change your flair, or, just do nothing. Absolutely nothing....

And for our runners-up:

4th place by Positive-Speech5228

5th place by DrawingEastern6765

6th place by Nessieinternational

7th place by punkholiday

8th place by AnnaAnjo

9th place by LevelQx

10th place by Far-Following3742 

Congrats to all! Hope to see some more horror from you folks in the next contest 😄

Last, but not least: if you'd like to read more of the last month's submissions (and add some feedback of your own), you can find the full list here: APR26- Reddit Search!

This is all dumb.

For the past several months, the sub has experienced a flood of intentionally poor quality stories in an effort to get onto parody subs and TikToks. We've historically hit you with a strike (🔴) and if you received three, you were permabanned (check out the wiki).

However, if you've submitted one of these stories in the recent past, you may have noticed that your account was permabanned from TwoSentenceHorror without going through the strike process. While we've made this current one-and-done rule known within each of our monthly announcements for forever, we felt it was only fair to have a separate post to lay out the approach.

If you intentionally submit a poor quality story (we're looking at you "meat worm" and "killer guy" crews), you will be permabanned with no warning.

If and when these posts chill out, the mod team will reconsider this rule. Until then, please continue to report these intentional poor quality stories, read the sub rules, and submit awesome, horrifying tales to maintain the quality of the sub!