Tales of Interest!

by Pascoite

Never Ask Rarity If Your Santa Suit Looks Alright

“Never wear white after Labor Day?” Twilight asked. “An odd rule.”

“Gonna be tough convincing her,” Spike murmured, pointing at Rarity.

“Give it!” Rarity missed at grabbing Twilight’s Santa Hooves hat.

“You stop that! It’s for the foals!”

Up the street, Santa’s throne awaited with a long line. “Should get going, too,” Spike said.

“Never!” Rarity retorted.

“Gonna have a riot soon,” Spike observed.

“Let me have that!” Rarity magicked away Twilight’s hat and robe.

“You can’t take white from Hearth’s Warming!”

Down from her gem box, Rarity levitated a ruby.

“‘Never’ can be… manipulated,” she said, holding it out to him.

“Gonna… give me that?” At Rarity’s nod, he ate it.

“Run!” Twilight shouted.

Around a half-second later, a flame-ridden belch erupted.

And Rarity floated the white trim close until slightly charred.

Desert sand was all that remained of the robe’s glass buttons.

“You are welcome,” Rarity said. “Off-white.”

Author's Note:

Prompt: Break the rules.

So, what rules were broken? Obviously, Rarity finessed her way around a fashion rule in-story. What about writing rules? Where to start... Having so many one-line paragraphs presents poorly, it's probably a bad idea to have three characters in a story this short, so many paragraphs have a repeated structure of "Dialogue," speaker said. It was kind of necessary to get it all to work out, though, which breaks another rule: having a dumb gimmick to your story. If you haven't spotted it yet, then read down the first word of each paragraph.

Comments

[Super Trampoline]

okay, I was not impressed until the reveal at the end of the notes. Fuck you

[Pascoite]

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Precisely the reaction I was going for.

[DreadedCandiru2]

That is so classic her.

[Super Trampoline]

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[PresentPerfect]

oh no, you didn't! XD