Writing Prompt Create the Saddest One-Shot as You Can.

[CadmarLegend]

Boat stories.

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[COLOC_Kid]

"why" you ask towards your friend. you know why you always have. Just, uhhh. you have nothing to say. You kneel on the ground with a gun barrel pressed against your head. Sometimes you wonder what you could have been. Your whole life you sat in the back. You always tried to fit in. It's like you never made it. When you were a kid you dreamt that you would be successful in life. In the end you were stuck in a dead end job. I mean it's not that bad. You had some money. You had healthcare. Wow your life really did suck. You were a stuck up narcissist too. of course you can deny it but you were a jerk. You left a scar on everyone that cared about you. Of course you would never say you were. Maybe it would be better for you to curl up and die. At least then we will be happy.

 

[Agentt]

And here I was, crucified on a cross, like Jesus himself. I wonder if I'll become a God like him. For now, I wanted to looked at the night sky. The stars were much clearer here. But they were all blurry. The smoke, and fire, they are terrible enemies of eyes. But altleast in my last moments, I wished for one last thing. Let me be cool for just once. I opened my eyes, and faced the blanket of cosmos, ignoring my burning eyelids. I was happy at that moment, almost cracked a smile, but I wasn't allowed to. I must be around 12 or something when I discovered a human law. People don't want to see others happy. People are just so kind that they want others to be sad so that they can help them. Being happy is to be alone. If I were sad here, people might petty me. But now they were throwing stones. Each of them opened a wound, through which warmth oozed out. I wished they would target my head, to end it all quickly. I wish I could wish for that but I couldn't. Even though I had given up on this world, my body wanted to live.
I don't know how to feel about that. Honestly, I wish it would give up too. But, you know, just a little, even in this torture, I still wished to live.

 

[Deleted member 45782]

Not sure if this will make you cry, but it is a sad and dark story that came up with suddenly for this thread.

Spoiler: Sad Dark Story

Someone found their spouse cheating on them, when they promised it would be just the two of them til they do part. What was worse, was that their spouse cheated on them with that person's best friend, and even more worse that best friend was their sibling. However person could not divorce their spouse since they were a homemaker for many years so without experience without pay and if they divorce, their cheating spouse would get the kids full custody and they won't be able to see them again. Their spouse also was a*******.

In some years later, the place the person was living in was in a war. They tried to escape with their children, but out of the seven kids they had, five died from the war conflicts and violence. One had physical disability bc of it, and both children had so much mental trauma from it, they were no longer sane.

Person eventually found a way to cross over to a better place but struggled to make enough to scrape by to support her two children, who needed a lot care for their needs. They worked in a factory with barely low pay and had to substitute it with selling themselves just to make ends meet and keep a roof over their head for their kids and themselves and they starved a lot. They got caught up with those who sell others and for years they couldn't escape and see their kids.

Finally they were rescued but placed in jail bc of their crimes charged at them even if they were eventually forced to do stuff they couldn't say no too; the law doesn't specify so sometimes victims get jailed too. It took them a long while to find their two kids, who have known been grown up. Actually, only one survived because the other one did not make it past adolescence.

When they finally got released, it took their remaining adult son to see them because they felt abandoned and for so long they didn't know what happened to their parent. Eventually the person got to meet with their son. They hadn't met with their family yet but planning to show up to their grandkid's birthday. They bought a cake and a present and was planning to arrive to their son's house, when they got into an accident and died before they can give a birthday cake to their grandson. They had just reunited with their last remaining child, only to be pulled apart.

 

[CadmarLegend]

Not sure if this will make you cry, but it is a sad and dark story that came up.

Spoiler: Sad Dark Story

Someone found their spouse cheating on them, when they promised it would be just the two of them til they do part. What was worse, was that their spouse cheated on them with that person's best friend, and even more worse that best friend was their sibling. However person could not divorce their spouse since they were a homemaker for many years so without experience without pay and if they divorce, their cheating spouse would get the kids full custody and they won't be able to see them again. Their spouse also was a*******.

In some years later, the place the person was living in was in a war. They tried to escape with their children, but out of the seven kids they had, five died from the war conflicts and violence. One had physical disability bc of it, and both children had so much mental trauma from it, they were no longer sane.

Person eventually found a way to cross over to a better place but struggled to make enough to scrape by to support her two children, who needed a lot care for their needs. They worked in a factory with barely low pay and had to substitute it with selling themselves just to make ends meet and keep a roof over their head for their kids and themselves and they starved a lot. They got caught up with those who sell others and for years they couldn't escape and see their kids.

Finally they were rescued but placed in jail bc of their crimes charged at them even if they were eventually forced to do stuff they couldn't say no too; the law doesn't specify so sometimes victims get jailed too. It took them a long while to find their two kids, who have known been grown up. Actually, only one survived because the other one did not make it past adolescence.

When they finally got released, it took their remaining adult son to see them because they felt abandoned and for so long they didn't know what happened to their parent. Eventually the person got to meet with their son. They hadn't met with their family yet but planning to show up to their grandkid's birthday. They bought a cake and a present and was planning to arrive to their son's house, when they got into an accident and died before they can give a birthday cake to their grandson. They had just reunited with their last remaining child, only to be pulled apart.

This is sad
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[Deleted member 45782]

This is sad
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There's probably mixture of some of those things for some irl tbh.
So...am super grateful for the things have and happiness. Hoping to always have many yrs of happiness and health and good life.

 

[CadmarLegend]

There's probably mixture of some of those things for some irl tbh.
So...am super grateful for the things have and happiness. Hoping to always have many yrs of happiness and health and good life.

The way the story was written was also strategic.

Spoiler

You first created a misfortune MANY have. Then, you added some time-skipping, making the reader feel that the MC is also facing aging. After that, a huge misfortune happened. Then, uoy partly reused something that the MC had already feared would happen if they didn't recieve the OTHER smaller misfortune. Then you made us feel better.... then quickly crushed our happiness
This is how you fiddled with the reader's heart; using psychology.

 

[Deleted member 45782]

The way the story was written was also strategic.

Spoiler

You first created a misfortune MANY have.

Yeah I know that. Basically, the story is meant to say if you want a sad story that will really make you cry, you don't have to look for it very hard. You can find it irl in many places, in many events, in many people's lives.

Spoiler

Then, you added some time-skipping, making the reader feel that the MC is also facing aging.

Oh...well I'm too lazy to make it very detailed so I just summed up the story. Not so much about the aging, but yeah telling the life of that character in their story.

Spoiler

After that, a huge misfortune happened. Then, you partly reused something that the MC had already feared would happen if they didn't recieve the OTHER smaller misfortune.

Not sure about that.

Spoiler

Then you made us feel better.... then quickly crushed our happiness

Yup. Sometimes the saddest, most cruel thing, is that it crushes your happiness just as it makes an uplifting turn.

Spoiler

This is how you fiddled with the reader's heart; using psychology.

Ah so that's what its called psychology being used in reading...