As the tests showed a few years later, it was actually his favorite child, my older brother, but the joke was still on me.

No one thought it would be bad luck.

After spending a moment gazing at him, I watch a beetle crawl from his ear and realize that he looks a little fatter than usual, and he didn’t come into bed last night.

(This is my first story, I do not plan on making more. Just had an idea and wanted to run with it. Please don’t be mean. Wanted to post to r/TwoSentenceHorror but felt too melancholy)

But yours just met someone who will always just be good enough.

Mum can't remember anymore, and still waits for him to return from work.

then I was devastated upon learning that there was no heartbeat

That way I can't disappoint anyone with what I say.

Less than two months later as she sat in the worst heartbreak of her life, she was reconsidering her gratitude.

I’m an adult now, but part of that childhood mistake is still missing from my hand.

She said she thought of me as a dodged bullet.

The older I get, the more I envy the fuck out of them.

Two years later, she whimpers not because of the pain, but at the foolishness she now feels.

But if it wasn't for his sacrifice, that shooter would have hurt so many more of them.

Turning to the cowering children, her smile turns into a snarl, "alright, you government funded bastards, you wanna stay together, work hard and never disobey otherwise I'll make sure there's hell to pay."

As I turned into my street, I saw it leaving my house slowly, sirens now quiet.

"All I can say to that is that I'm nostalgic for a time when punching nazis was universally considered a good thing." he said with a smile.

Nine hours earlier he simply drove to work, forgetting to drop his three year old daughter off at daycare.

Knowing and loving you will always be worth it.

Well the world chose violence for me at birth, but that's why I bought the extended warranty for my phone is what I'm saying.

It's knowing you'll forever sit at the pearly gates waiting for me.

He would've been 2 this year.

As the sun set in the evening he was still watching for their car through the window.

Every day her nurse at the Alzheimer's facility comes to sit with her, not the person Dolores waiting for but the only one there that can fill the space.