Luna struggles with the edges of sanity and feelings of depression after her time of lunar isolation.

For one to rise and prosper, another must fall... and fail.

Chrysalis falls onto a farm. The farmer a unicorn. She was followed.

When the light dims and the flame burns out, the magic inside us all will forever endure.

The mane six take shelter in a place that is, for now, safe from a disaster occurring outside.

This gruesome tale of violence and death is not recommended for colts, fillies, or the faint of heart.

Twilight Sparkle is a gifted student and scholar. When she attempts to harness her creative side by writing a science-themed sensual romance novel, however, things rapidly get out of hoof. Can her friends stage an intervention before she humiliates herself (and them) at a prestigious literature recital?

No. No, they cannot.

She is as beautiful and graceful as the moon, and just as hard to reach. He is a young artist with much to learn about the world. When he accepts her challenge to create an artistic masterpiece, will he win her heart, or learn a terrible lesson in the nature of beauty and love?

[Featured on EqD and FiM Fiction] Chrysalis is brought to Canterlot to stand trial for her failed invasion. Thinking her fate is sealed, she is determined to be defiant to the very end. Loosely based on March to the Scaffold, the 4th movement of the musical piece Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz.
All links to the music pieces are in the Author Notes.
Dramatic reading of the entire story by Illya Leonov
Dramatic reading of Chapter 1 by xPsychoShyx
Picture is by Huussii

The only difference between now and a thousand years ago is my age./ Princess Luna reflects on how she is treated by her sister and her subjects. While Celestia may believe in ruling as equals, Luna wonders if all of ponykind feel the same way.

Solace is a good pony: kind and caring, but now he must face his past or be consumed in the flames of it.

Written because sometimes the grit of something wrong and painful gets lodged in a writer's mind, and the only way to deal with it is to make it a pearl. There is nothing beautiful or poetic in tragedy, only pain and loss.
This story is that pearl: Inspired by a real event, and the scumbag newspaper who thought to portray it as something beautiful and tragic.