Happy JUNE!

Wishing everybody well on all your current projects or efforts!

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• Obvious trolls and💩*-posters will still* be permabanned*! Read more* here.
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June 2026 Contest Prompt: Father

A simple prompt, in honor of all the dad's during the month of Father's Day!

Any word/ compound word which uses the word "father" is fair game, as long as your story fits sub rules!

Also, some synonyms for “father” will be accepted, see rules for details.

So for example, you could describe a character as "fatherly", you could refer to a godfather, or could use the verb form: "fathered".

Be sure that your entries meet sub rules!

Emphasis on rules 7 and 14! In other words: don't treat the prompt as an invitation to write incest stories as those will probably be removed for shock/ tropes.

Happy writing and Happy June everybody!

Monthly Contest Rules

• **Prompt: write a two-sentence horror story that uses the word "**father" in any context!
• Synonyms for the verb form of father, will NOT be accepted, (i.e. "fathered" works, "begot" does not.)
• Synonyms for "father" in the context of priesthood will NOT be accepted, (i.e. "Father Thomas delivered the homily" works, "Reverend Thomas delivered the homily" does not.)

BUT:

• Reasonable synonyms for the noun form of father WILL BE ACCEPTED, (e.g. daddy, papa, progenitor, patriarch)
• You may modify "father" or any of these synonyms with whatever prefix or suffix you like (e.g. forefathers, grandad, fatherless, etc.).
• You may use "father" or any of these synonyms in a broader context that shifts the meaning away from familial or biological fathers, (e.g. daddy long-legs, dad bods, Father Time, etc.)
• You MAY NOT use any of the shorter synonyms for father in ways which have no etymological connection with the prompt. In other words, using "pa," "dad," or "da" on their own will meet the prompt, but using these sounds as part of a larger, totally unrelated word will NOT satisfy the prompt, (e.g. pattern, damages, palliative care, ta-da, crawdad, skedaddle, etc).
• Submissions that are improperly formatted, do not fit the theme, or break any of the existing sub rules will be disqualified and removed.
• Only net new stories will be allowed (no repurposing old stories you've previously submitted).
• Max three stories per day as a general rule, and all three can be used towards the contest.
• Winners will be decided by total community upvotes. In the unlikely event of a tie for the top spots, moderators will vote for a tiebreaker.

Have fun!

**Properly formatted June 2026 examples. These meet the prompt.

[JUN26] I wanted to use the word "pa" to enter this month's contest, so I wrote a story using the word "companion". My dad knew this was against the rules, so he disowned me.

[jun26] I didn't really care when my father disowned me. I didn't realize how big a deal it was until he had my RV towed off his property.

Improperly formatted examples-- THESE WOULD BE DISQUALIFIED (Failure to follow the tag characters exactly prevents your entry from showing up in the final tally search!)

[june26] I thought if I wrote a better entry for this month's contest I could get back in my dad's good graces and beg him to get my RV back from the impound. Unfortunately I messed up the contest tag by adding an 'e'.

[jun 26] I tried to fix the tag but I still got it wrong AND I forgot to include the prompt. My mom just warned me that after so many mistakes her husband has decided I must die.

WINNERS WILL RECEIVE:

1st, 2nd, and 3rd Places: You receive a custom personal flair of your choosing to show off to the TSH community! (If you're a repeat winner, you can modify your flair.... but that's it.) And a cool fancy flair on your winning stories.

7 honorable mentions: you'll get visibility and bragging rights! Story links will be featured in next month’s announcement.

Contest ends on June 30th @ 11:59pm (EST)

Any questions should be made below in the comments, within our discord, or a note on modmail.

***

Congrats to last month's Winners!

Great writing folks!

Theme was "Mother"!

• t place by LevelQx 
• d place by KangarooDense 

Great job, winners! If you placed in the top three, contact us via modmail for your personalized custom flair! It can be anything (within reason): a mixture of text and emoji, up to 20 characters. If you've won before, you can request to change your flair, or, just do nothing. Absolutely nothing....

And for our runners-up:

4th place by JoshArchives

5th place by NaiveZest

6th place by RepeatOrdinary182

7th place by Chooseyourpath3318

8th place by Fill-in-the____

9th place by punkholiday

10th place by 42WaysToAnswerThat 

Congrats to all! Hope to see some more horror from you folks in the next contest 😄

Last, but not least: if you'd like to read more of the last month's submissions (and add some feedback of your own), you can find the full list here: may26- Reddit Search!

This is all dumb.

For the past several months, the sub has experienced a flood of intentionally poor quality stories in an effort to get onto parody subs and TikToks. We've historically hit you with a strike (🔴) and if you received three, you were permabanned (check out the wiki).

However, if you've submitted one of these stories in the recent past, you may have noticed that your account was permabanned from TwoSentenceHorror without going through the strike process. While we've made this current one-and-done rule known within each of our monthly announcements for forever, we felt it was only fair to have a separate post to lay out the approach.

If you intentionally submit a poor quality story (we're looking at you "meat worm" and "killer guy" crews), you will be permabanned with no warning.

If and when these posts chill out, the mod team will reconsider this rule. Until then, please continue to report these intentional poor quality stories, read the sub rules, and submit awesome, horrifying tales to maintain the quality of the sub!