So, “two-sentence horror stories” — that’s still a thing, right? There’s a pretty popular subreddit, and they made a whole show out of it? I dunno, I’m increasingly out of the loop. In any event, as someone with both a love of unnerving short fiction and experimenting with new formats, I was surprised to realize that I’d never actually taken a crack at one myself! So when a certain creepy couplet popped into my head, I decided to not just leave it as lines on the screen but give a bit more of a… visual flourish:


