What?
Two-sentence stories, as the name indicate, are kinds of
stories with only two sentences.
Do you remember
that several weeks ago, there were lots of events on Facebook named like “一句話惹毛XX人大賽”? Long time before those memes were floated on FB, there had been memes
like those out of foreign Internet.
As the benefit of English grammar, two sentences in English
usually can be much longer than those in Chinese, thus, delivering more
information in those two sentences. As usual, let’s see some example below. Oh,
did I mention that most of them are horror stories? Well…, that probably
wouldn’t matter :)
Examples
“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.” -Juan J Ruiz
“After working a hard day I came home to see my girlfriend cradling our child. I didn't know which was more frightening, seeing my dead girlfriend and stillborn child, or knowing that someone broke into my apartment to place them there.”
“When I finally grabbed her in the darkness, I swam back to the surface. It never occurred to me how fast the ice could freeze over.”
“My grandmother told me that it was a gift to see the angel of death in front of people's houses, to know that he'd be collecting someone there soon. I thought it was a gift too, up until the day I began to see it in front of every house.”[1]
Do it myself
“I was sitting on my chair watching the most gorgeous view I’ve ever seen, near a window, her
brown hair shining gold under the sun, with her flawless face looking down. As
usual, the alarm rang, before I could know which book she read.”
Summary
Internet memes can still train your expression in English,
like limit your sentence describing a story into only two sentences. Also, it
can be literary sometimes, just like I did above XD
