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by shortskirtsandexplosions

and backrooms

Author's Note:

You're a clever unicorn, Twilight

A string

A yellow string

Why didn't you think of this before?

You lead it through the empty corridor

Over carpet and tile and mildew stains

The fluorescent lights catch the fibrous track

A golden glow

It is so very simple

The string goes around a wall

And takes a left

You turn left with it

The string will show where you've been

And where you haven't been

That's why you've left it

That's why you've been leaving it

Your pace quickens

The string drapes in a straight line up ahead

Until it doesn't

It goes around a wall

It takes a left

You turn left with it

Such a clever unicorn, Twilight

You would have to be

To fashion a string out of nothing

Was it the carpet?

Did you unravel it?

If so, from where?

You blink

You follow the string

But slowly, now

There's a wall up ahead

The string takes a left

So

You follow it

You

You made the string

You left the string here

Or did the string leave you here?

It leads straight ahead

Until

It doesn't

There is a wall up ahead

Such a clever pony, Twilight Sparkle

It turns left

So

You turn left

And

There's a string

It goes straight

Until it doesn't

There's a wall up ahead

It turns left

So

So

So

So

You

Comments

[King Kenya]

I don’t know what you’ve been doing, but evidentially you’ve been doing a lot of it, and where can I get some? This reads like trying to get directions from Syd Barrett, you may take that as you wish.

[FanOfMostEverything]

And this is why you never buy a timeshare in lost Carcosa.

[Merula]

Ending right on a cliff hanger....damn you, skirts!

[fourths]

Aw I was hoping to publish an art-Cancelled fic first, one of these days

[Sir Mediocre]

The cancelled status gives me the same feeling as the spinning top in the ending scene of Inception.

If there is an award for cleverest use of non-completion, you've won it.

Or have you?

[zaponator]

This is really neat. I enjoyed this.

[Flutterpriest]

holy fuck this was good

[Vindicar]

You tried too hard.

[The 24th Pegasus]

[Moosetasm]

9633502
You never can avoid all the damnable yellow signs.

[KnightMysterio]

...

Wait, WHAT THE FLIP FLYING FUCK?!

[Alondro]

Feh, dimensional traps only work on people without supreme powers... meaning they're not meaningful anyway.

[Sam the Anti-Ninja]

Wow...so many left turns. Ever thought about just breaking the room?

...wait, if the rooms are broken, do they belong in themselves?

[zeusdemigod131]

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I saw a DnD story about something like that once, basically, it was an infinite number of rooms inside a single room, they called it a Hypercube (I think there was a movie about it).

Eventually, the players got sick of it and broke every wall in the room (and the ceiling and floor) and made the infinite rooms into one room and the hypercube collapsed into itself. Players survive but realistically I think that'd just make a Black hole or something worse, like a Hyper Black Hole, or the dimensional version of a Black Hole.