//------------------------------// // January 2022: "Break the Rules!" // Story: Eileen's Exhilarating Collection of Extremely Short Fiction // by EileenSaysHi //------------------------------// Mirror, Mirror, Off the Wall “Pinkie!” Twilight dashed toward the balloon-marked mare, who looked at her with a befuddled expression. “Thank goodness I found you! I’ve lost the portal to the human realm!” “Oh, uh…” “Pinkie?” “Well… Cheese Sandwich came by and said he needed something he could use in a funhouse he made for a big party, and… I may have told him about the dimensional mirror thingy and let him borrow it for a day.” “You did WHAT?” Sunset looked up from her precalculus exam to the sound of consternation outside. She peered through the window and saw a mass of confused people gathered around the former Wondercolts statue, many panicking, most on all fours and one singing and dancing with an accordion. Then she watched two more stumble out of the statue base, then another three. “Oh, horseapples…”