this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2026
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Two Sentence Horror
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Two Sentence Horrors.
The title should be the first sentence, while the body should be the second.
Keep it spooky.
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Well, all constrained writing is hard. I've tried my hand at various formats of it over the years, and I kinda suck at it. I suck extra hard at it as the allowed length goes down. Soi totally sympathize with running out of ideas. I don't think I've had one for two sentence in years. It was on reddit the last time, and that was before they screwed up the api lol.
Tbh, I'm a little jealous of folks that can do this kind of writing, even if it ends up flopping because of the creative juice it takes to even have an idea, much less craft it.
I'm not totally against bots reposting, though I think it risks decreasing original posts since lemmy runs high to folks that will just block communities with frequent bot posts. Regardless, that would be up to the mod of the c/, so my opinion is diaper-ish. But in terms of enjoying the c/ as a user, I think as long as it's once a day, it would be a net positive.
As far as this post goes, I think if you'd used the full two sentence story in the title, and added the image as a secondary thing in comments, it wouldn't have been an issue for anyone but the die-hard anti-ai crowd. You were up front about the image being ai, and that's all I care about in that regard, the honesty. Edit: in other words, the second sentence isn't visible from all apps, so it looks like it's only one sentence and the image until you enter the comment section.
I don't think that this community would be a good place for expanded constraints. It's kind of like a haiku. Once you expand the format, it breaks the thing that makes it so intriguing. That third sentence alone changes the craft of the idea significantly, even if the impact of the result was the same.
That being said, I would love a one paragraph horror community! I don't know if lemmy is big enough to support one, but damn does it sound cool! It would be perfect for literature.cafe imo. I'm kinda surprised nobody has set one up yet.