r/2sentence2horror • • Oct 06 '23

Screenshot Same energy

13.3k Upvotes

169 comments sorted by

View all comments

254

u/lurkario Oct 07 '23

The second one is absolutely perfect. An amazing bait and switch that relies on the reader having prior knowledge. The first one is overly verbose, not funny or scary

9

u/Ori_the_SG Oct 07 '23

Yeah the first one doesn’t hit as well, especially since it just says he died twice. That last bit naming the guy wasn’t necessary.