The world is having a love affair with sad short stories being posted on social media sites. Feel free to join in on the craze and post these all over the Internet:

• There was a little girl. The little girl had a horse that she loved. The horse also loved the little girl and would do anything she wanted. The horse would go to flowers if she said, “Go to flowers,” or the horse would kiss her hair if she said, “Kiss my hair.” One day the girl said to the horse, “Let’s go to the arcade.” The horse went straight to where she asked but he thought she said “bear cave,” not “arcade.” The horse let the bears eat it so the girl could get away. CLICK “LIKE” IF YOU LOVE HORSES.

• There wuz dis cute couple. They went everwhere 2gether. But then the boy gotta job in a difrent town. She asked him if she could go to the town wit him. He says no. Girl starts cryng and runs away into a bigg field. A eagle smells her tears ans swoops down and takes girl away. Boy sees and starts cryne. He say “I said you counldn’t come cause I would never leave inna first place.” “Like” if this make you have tears.

• Thomas Halverstrom sighed. Thirty-two years at the agency and they had let him go in one short, to-the-point meeting. “The industry has changed,” said one of the interchangeable men on the other side the conference table. “We need fresh blood.” Well, they would have it. Thomas had stayed too long at the bar and missed the last bus home; he would have to walk. He had 32 blocks to gather his words for his wife. He hated letting her down. It was cold and his feet hurt—the kind of hurt with 60 years piled on top of it. He sighed, dried his tears with his sleeve, and started walking. Then some aliens blew up the entire world forever. Please press the “like” button if this made you sad.