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Goodreads asked Joseph Carrabis:

Can you tell us a two-sentence horror story?

Joseph Carrabis I came up with two:

"It was a dark and stormy night. The storm in his heart, the darkness in his mind and he spent all night chuckling contentedly at photographs of those who would pay."

and

"The wolf broke from the dense green foliage, knocking Red to the forest floor, branches and rocks piercing and punching her back as the wolf's weight held her down. It buried its teeth in her throat and she laughed, "That was your first mistake.""

1) Thanks for including me in this exercise.
2) I think they're both a tad cliched.
3) My editor, who describes my work with "Joseph's stories always have two things: a deep understanding of psychology and something about love, being loved, loving someone or something." She chose the second offering because "I can think of what happens next." Everybody else chose the first because they had no idea of what was going to happen next.

And I'd love to hear other people's thoughts.

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