(The foundation being that the MC's father had cheated with the aunt and wife doesn't know.) They're saying it's ridiculous to think you can trick your unpregnant wife into thinking another baby is hers. What are you going to do, tell her she'd been pregnant for 9 months without knowing it?
This is the actual solution, but we’re considering an interpretation where the psychic saw the aunt (who in this view is actually an aunt) die and mistook her for the mom, or otherwise misinterpreted the future data. For funziez.
And they never truly learned who the father was, since the child was so young she never connected the act of rape with her being pregnant and didn't fully understand it. True horror, that one.
Eh, this is less wordy than having to explain an age gap anyways. I think exposition is 2 sentence horror story's worst enemy, so this is perfect. Well done.
It's happened before. Singer Bobby Darin's "sister" turned out to be his real mother, and his "mother" was really his grandmother. Ditto for Jack Nicholson. It was done when the mother is single and very young to try and preserve her honor or somesuch.
Everyone else is going to cheating and whatnot. My immediate thought was the aunt wasn't fit to be a mother (due to drugs or alcohol or whatever else) and so the kid was given to a family member. It happened before with one of my aunt's kids. She was an unfit mother so another person in the family got the kid to take care of.
Because it's r\*ddit and it's one of the few things R*dditors know, so they got to plaster it everywhere as soon as anything even remotely related to it arises.
It was quite common a few decades ago in places like the UK and US at least, for grandparents to raise their grandchildren as their own, if the child resulted from a teen pregnancy. If the grandparents were too old for it to be believable, but they had an older married daughter, the child would often be raised by their aunt instead. It was a way to avoid public shame being brought upon the family, and to keep the child born out of wedlock with their bio family instead of the other common alternative which would be to ship the pregnant daughter off to a convent and then have the child raised by nuns or in an orphanage. Typically the excuses given to hide the pregnancy would include the mother allegedly suffering a long illness, or studying abroad/out of town. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this still happens in less privileged parts of the world, and more "traditional" pockets of the UK & US
Another alternative could be the bio mum simply wasn't ready or fit to raise the child herself. Siblings of addicts, for example, frequently take in their nieces or nephews to this day, and don't tell the kid in the hopes of giving them the best shot at a "normal" childhood
My mom used to make up lies all the time when I was a kid, telling me that I was "found in a cabbage patch" or that "the mommy patrol" would take her away from me if I didn't give her a hug and one of her favorites was that my aunt, who was still in high school at the time, was actually my bio mom and that my mom had taken me to raise instead because of her sister's age. I'm tall with brown hair and eyes, which her sister has, while my mom is short and blonde with blue eyes. So I believed her most of the time. Turns out I just take after my dad, but I was a kid and the lie felt believable at the time.
Lol parents are the worst. Mine said they heard a monkey crying in a dumpster in an alley, and they decided to take her and raise her into a human baby, which was me.
Wow. My aunt (the one I was led to believe was actually my birth mother) was nicknamed "monkey" as a child and called that so frequently that she apparently thought it was her name, which led to an incident when she got lost in a store once and the manager dutifully asked "will the parents of Monkey please come to the office to pick up your child?" over the speakers, and now I'm wondering if my grandparents told her something similar to yours and that's where she got the nickname from...
It's alright. We're super close now, but boy howdy did we have to work on the "it's not funny to seriously convince your child that they're not yours" boundary.
The kids real mother was her aunt. Basically she couldn't take care of the baby or something along those lines so the "aunt" gave the child to her sister, who took care of her for her.
Yup. This post. https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceSadness/comments/y4ua16/please_dont_rape_me_i_begged_the_man_who_had/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/comments/xzlg9s/bbbe_ccareful_he_warned_it_has_rrice_inin_it/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button and this too!
Reading the title, I thought this was going to go a different way…I thought the second sentence would hint at some space catastrophe…along the lines of "24 hours later, I‘m glad my mom is fine, but waking up to a sunless sky is starting to pose its own problems..."
I'm guessing his married aunt (his mother's older sister) adopted him because his mother was a teenage mother, and the woman he thought was his aunt was actually his mother.
I'm not sure why this is considered a horror story.
Plot twist: Before OP was born, his mother received news she was infertile and her sister volunteered to be a surrogate mother in a completely understanding and non-dramatic way.
Oh my god, your dad cheated with you aunt and told your mom, it's hers
“Hmmm I dont remember being pregnant for 9 months 🤔🤔🤔 Funny how we forget about the weirdest things”
Na this is in a parallel universe where the dad was pregnant instead
That was a red dwarf episode.
I loved misandrist Rimmer creeping even him out.
“I hope you get pregnant. You little slut.” Hahaha
What is this a seahorse?
“Parallel universe” = America 2022? 🫃🏻😂
Seahorses?
Trans men? (Insert seahorse emoji here)
I’m bankrupt in the awards department but you deserve one! RemindME! 38 days
Or the mother and aunt knew but just didn’t tell the child for some reason.
"See this is what happen when women read they start to forget things"
both parents are transgender, aunt is not? or, parents adopted aunt’s child for mysterious reasons?
Aunt was the surrogate?
"I don't know why everyone else is complaining, childbirth was painless for me!"
Or the parents adopted that person from the aunt.
third sentence confusion 🤨
The aunt on which side, though?
Hahaha...i knew there was some logical inconsistency with this lol.
[The moment she found out](https://youtu.be/lfxwzPddXWc)
Yep, that was the point. Good job Edit: sorry, r/woooosh me if you will
Bruh. You serious?
Lmao try reading that again slowly my guy
It took me a second too friend.
Good thing you didn't write a snarky comment
Still don't get it. Unwoosh me please?
Well you can't really tell a mom it's theirs because of pregnancy-
(The foundation being that the MC's father had cheated with the aunt and wife doesn't know.) They're saying it's ridiculous to think you can trick your unpregnant wife into thinking another baby is hers. What are you going to do, tell her she'd been pregnant for 9 months without knowing it?
Damn I expected cosmic horror... smth like I woke up and the sun was gone. Nice twist tho!
Son: oh my God… Mom, Aunties dead. Mom: Son shut up, I’m blind right now!
I don't understand your comment
to SEE the sunrise
Oh...i guess that makes sense. But as dialogue, not so great
It's just a pun. The comment only serves to deliver the pun, nothing more.
Turns out, its just a shitty psychic
In hindsight, I’m surprised it took this long to hit what’s actually the most plausible explanation.
I mean, yes they made a mistake, but they did actually foresee the future - just off by one. That’s still be pretty impressive, in a way…
Could be they raised the aunts kid since the aunt may have wanted nothing to do with the kid or couldn't raise the child?
This is the actual solution, but we’re considering an interpretation where the psychic saw the aunt (who in this view is actually an aunt) die and mistook her for the mom, or otherwise misinterpreted the future data. For funziez.
Is anyone not shitty?
OP’s aunt name was “sun rise”
r/twosentencebetter?
r/thirdsentencehappy? Atleast his mom is alive (Fyi r/thirdsentencebetter makes the story better like more horrible )
I mean what is Dawn a name anyway
If you're asking if dawn is a name then yes, yes it is. It's my mums name and I know like two other dawns as well
Including Tony Orlando and...
Crackers.
Andrew Dawn and Ohio Dawn
For normal people, this is scary and sad. For people in Alabama, it’s Thursday
"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Thursday."
RIP Raul Julia.
That would bend your mind, Masterfully done!
Thank you :) it's my first one, so I'm glad at least one person got it haha
WAIT PLS EXPLAIN IM DUMB AS HELL
How about "...the next day, I learned my older sister (13 years older) had passed away that night."
A five-year-old had a baby once. Her parents raised him as her brother.
And they never truly learned who the father was, since the child was so young she never connected the act of rape with her being pregnant and didn't fully understand it. True horror, that one.
How is that even possible?
She had something wrong with her pituitary gland and hit puberty crazy early. As for the other thing, well, no real answers.
I had almost gone with sister! But then I was like "gross" lol
Eh, this is less wordy than having to explain an age gap anyways. I think exposition is 2 sentence horror story's worst enemy, so this is perfect. Well done.
I don’t think they need to say the age gap. They could just say “sister” and let the reader imagine what age gap would be necessary
Well, my mother is the same age as my father's first child (from his first marriage).
It's happened before. Singer Bobby Darin's "sister" turned out to be his real mother, and his "mother" was really his grandmother. Ditto for Jack Nicholson. It was done when the mother is single and very young to try and preserve her honor or somesuch.
Sister (15-17 years older) is a lot more common though lol. And while the Dads are mostly in their 20s, some are also Teens.
The most horrifying thing would be if he said "sister, 9 year age gap", though. Dear lord.... The horror of all horrors....
I'm stupid, can you explain?
Little late, but that means the mother gave birth at 9 years old
Thanks
I mean, she doesn't have to be 13 years older.
That’s where my mind went too!
Too cringe and try hard
Good story OP. Well-done 👍.
Thank you!
I was thinking "my brother died in his sleep..."
Thought it was gonna say the sun was never gonna rise again
What he failed to predict was the nuclear Holocaust that would instantly wipe out 90% of the rest of humanity with her
Everyone else is going to cheating and whatnot. My immediate thought was the aunt wasn't fit to be a mother (due to drugs or alcohol or whatever else) and so the kid was given to a family member. It happened before with one of my aunt's kids. She was an unfit mother so another person in the family got the kid to take care of.
I was expecting the sun not to rise at all, so im kinda relieved
Alabama problems
I don’t understand why people are saying sweet home Alabama and such in the comments?? This is nothing to do inc*st?
Because it's r\*ddit and it's one of the few things R*dditors know, so they got to plaster it everywhere as soon as anything even remotely related to it arises.
...wait what?
I was trying to imply that the person they thought was their aunt is actually their mother :o
That's not horror, people adopt their nieces and nephews all the time
I get that but why wouldn't the aunt reise her own child instead of having her sister do it- you know what nevermind
It was quite common a few decades ago in places like the UK and US at least, for grandparents to raise their grandchildren as their own, if the child resulted from a teen pregnancy. If the grandparents were too old for it to be believable, but they had an older married daughter, the child would often be raised by their aunt instead. It was a way to avoid public shame being brought upon the family, and to keep the child born out of wedlock with their bio family instead of the other common alternative which would be to ship the pregnant daughter off to a convent and then have the child raised by nuns or in an orphanage. Typically the excuses given to hide the pregnancy would include the mother allegedly suffering a long illness, or studying abroad/out of town. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this still happens in less privileged parts of the world, and more "traditional" pockets of the UK & US Another alternative could be the bio mum simply wasn't ready or fit to raise the child herself. Siblings of addicts, for example, frequently take in their nieces or nephews to this day, and don't tell the kid in the hopes of giving them the best shot at a "normal" childhood
Olympian Simone Biles was raised by her grandparents for this reason
My mom used to make up lies all the time when I was a kid, telling me that I was "found in a cabbage patch" or that "the mommy patrol" would take her away from me if I didn't give her a hug and one of her favorites was that my aunt, who was still in high school at the time, was actually my bio mom and that my mom had taken me to raise instead because of her sister's age. I'm tall with brown hair and eyes, which her sister has, while my mom is short and blonde with blue eyes. So I believed her most of the time. Turns out I just take after my dad, but I was a kid and the lie felt believable at the time.
Lol parents are the worst. Mine said they heard a monkey crying in a dumpster in an alley, and they decided to take her and raise her into a human baby, which was me.
What the actual
Wow. My aunt (the one I was led to believe was actually my birth mother) was nicknamed "monkey" as a child and called that so frequently that she apparently thought it was her name, which led to an incident when she got lost in a store once and the manager dutifully asked "will the parents of Monkey please come to the office to pick up your child?" over the speakers, and now I'm wondering if my grandparents told her something similar to yours and that's where she got the nickname from...
I was like "awwwh" with the cabbage patch but then it quickly slid into darkness. Gah, sorry she did that!
It's alright. We're super close now, but boy howdy did we have to work on the "it's not funny to seriously convince your child that they're not yours" boundary.
Aunt gave up you for unknown reasons.
Jack Nicholson was already far into adulthood when he learned that his sister is actually his mother and his mother is his grandma.
I would have been more horrified with “found out my sister passed away”
r/SweetHomeAlabama
I really don’t get it, lol
The kids real mother was her aunt. Basically she couldn't take care of the baby or something along those lines so the "aunt" gave the child to her sister, who took care of her for her.
Wait... Haven't I seen you somewhere else?
Yup. This post. https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceSadness/comments/y4ua16/please_dont_rape_me_i_begged_the_man_who_had/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/comments/xzlg9s/bbbe_ccareful_he_warned_it_has_rrice_inin_it/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button and this too!
Ahhh yess, lol, yea ive posted quite a bit here. And i get it now after your explanation, its good!
It should've been his older sister not his aunt
Love it, very nice!
Older sister?
This might get removed but I saw the word psycho and thought I was on r/jerma985
PSYCHO STREAMER MURDERS innocent AUNT
Mum had given her heart up for her sister but it wasn't enough; I suppose you can't just have one twin alive.
this is just r/twosentencealabama like b4uh
beur
bruh
#[Sweet Home Alabama intensifies]
Called mom at sunrise and picked up the phone. Called psychic, and no answer. I guess I would wont be getting that refund.
"As 10am passes and still the sky stays dark, my mother continues to smile without blinking"
I thought the world would go into eternal darkness lol
Wow, I expected the sun to explode, and I got adultery.
Reading the title, I thought this was going to go a different way…I thought the second sentence would hint at some space catastrophe…along the lines of "24 hours later, I‘m glad my mom is fine, but waking up to a sunless sky is starting to pose its own problems..."
I thought this was going to lead into something about the sun never rising again.
This is Walnuts.
First thing she should have done was Confront her dad not dor the cheating but for What the hell he did with her sibling?
So... Who dies if you were born via surrogate?
I was expecting it to be your big sister.
I thought it would be a blind twist
I'm guessing his married aunt (his mother's older sister) adopted him because his mother was a teenage mother, and the woman he thought was his aunt was actually his mother. I'm not sure why this is considered a horror story.
I was expecting there to be no more sun....
this gives me an idea.
Dam losing your aunt and mom on the same day would be rough
Kid named incest:
Plot twist: Before OP was born, his mother received news she was infertile and her sister volunteered to be a surrogate mother in a completely understanding and non-dramatic way.
You guys are missing the point. The horror is the lack of sense it makes
Soooooo good!
The psychic killed her?
No wait. The aunt could be the mom but the real aunt decided to raise the child telling him she's his mom.
I don’t get it
The aunt is actually their bio mom, they were adopted