r/TwoSentenceHappiness

A shy girl spent every Saturday reading the same battered fantasy novel in my used bookstore, so before she moved away, I gave it to her for a penny with a note: “Come back when you write the sequel.”

My granddaddy had worked since he was a little boy and never learned to read, but night after night for six months, he sat at the kitchen table sounding out words with a volunteer tutor.

During her forty years as a midwife at the convent clinic, Sister Beatrice kept a handwritten list of every baby she helped bring into the world, never expecting to see any of them again.

When Mac and I decided our little family was ready for a puppy, we told Sadie and Sammy we’d all go to the breeder together, but they had to agree on which one to bring home.

The young boy begged his worried parents if he could keep the baby dragon after he’d found its family crushed by a fallen tree.

"I just got the adoption papers, we're officially parents!" I said as I showed my wife the mail.

At the end of their first date, Hank teasingly warned Rose, “If you keep letting me chase you, I will catch you.”

I woke suddenly to the heavy thrum of rain, my heart racing as I realized I might be late for work.

At our annual cul-de-sac cookout, everyone froze and went dead silent when a badly aimed water balloon sailed past its target and exploded squarely in Old Lady Vera’s lap.

The night we met, Jack sat down beside me at the bar, threw out a ridiculous line from one of my favorite movies, and when I answered with the next line, he laughed and bought me a drink.