Can you tell a story in two sentences? Post it to this blog, and maybe you’ll even win $50 AUD (Australian dollars). The guy who edits and picks the stories is a freelance writer from Melbourne, Australia with an eye for interesting sentences. Most of the submissions aren’t mind-blowing, but some manage to pack quite a bit of wittiness and drama into very few words.

Here are two good ones. Make sure to pause and think about them for a moment, for full effect. And then read the editor’s comments on why they’re good — strangely insightful.

I caressed the empty space in our bed, still warm where once you were and supposed that you were gone forever. Soon my pillow was soaked with tears, my body exhausted by wrenching sobs, and then I heard the toilet flush.

Sharon Cohen | Editor’s comment

One of them would be free.
The other one would spend the next twenty years writing his memoirs, a best seller, implicating the one who was “free”.

Jean Blasiar | Editor’s comment

See more two-sentence short stories at the site.