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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/48824
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In ["150+ Short Two-Sentence Horror Stories To Freak You Out,"](https://thoughtcatalog.com/michael-koh/2013/07/40-freaking-creepy-ass-two-sentence-stories/) Michael Koh compiled a list of two-sentence horror stories.

He started of by saying that "horror stories don’t need to be long in order to be scary. A good horror concept can always be boiled down to its chilling core."

Here are a few examples:

> 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.  
> — Graboid27
> 
> I woke up to hear knocking on glass. At first, I thought it was the window until I heard it come from the mirror again.  
> — therealhatman
> 
> There was a picture in my phone of me sleeping. I live alone.  
> — guztaluz
> 
> 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.  
> — The\_D\_String

The point is that you can express the core of an idea in a very short amount of space. Writing more just expands on it. So, it's quite possible to write a short story in only 500 words; it just depends on how quickly you can say what you need to say.

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