Over his career as an amateur magician, Zebediah the Zebra has traveled to a lot of places, seen a lot of sights, and interacted with a Rogues gallery of creatures. He's got a lot of crazy stories about his exploits, and he'll offer most of them without being asked.

His best story, however, is one he doesn't tell very often. To hear it, you have to catch him in the late evening hours, when he's sitting off by himself and sipping on a mug of cold apple cider. It involves his very first trip to Equestria, when he ran afoul of an overzealous bureaucrat and spent a harrowing three days in the Trottingham jail.

This is his story.

Written for the Outside Insight EQD Summer Fanfic Contest. Partially inspired by Tom T. Hall's "A Week In A Country Jail."

Rarity gives a speech about the first friend she made. Making a point to remember and cherish the best of ponies.

A stallion faces a court allegation.

A mare faces her daughter's death.

Lightning bolt is a unicorn, bachelor, and university student. Everything seems to be going his way but one day after meeting a mare in class with an interest in his past, they go on a investigation, one that might just bring them closer together, but will change their lives forever .

This was a rather simple story made at the advice of a certain Lord Ershwin Wholewheat. He said he was impressed with my work on my other story and wanted to see how well I could handle making this sequel to The "DASH"ing story. Unfortunately, that story gave me very little to work with, so I had to entirely re-imagine everything. I would have loved to have gotten this out earlier, but I've been so busy that this had to take a bit of a back seat.

I suppose I'm just glad there isn't a legitimate sequel to it already. That would be pretty awkward.

In the past, batponies had been hunted into near extinction. Their brave goddess Luna sent them into hiding before her banishment. There they have stayed, hiding and wasting away, dreading the day they are yet again discovered and forced into extinction.

One young stallion does his best to survive in a clan gripped with fear as he explores his limited world under the cover of darkness.

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To a child, a dare is one of the most powerful known forces of compulsion, second only to a mother's command. A dare has the power to make a filly do things that they would never dream of doing normally. It has the power to make a foal do anything from mounting on a great quest, to eating a particularly nasty bug. Most of the time, the outcome is not so bright for the pony on the receiving end of the challenge.

Of course, sometimes those dares pan out in unexpected ways. Sunny Days never expected her dare to turn out in such a way that could leave an impression on her for a lifetime.

Neither did the Manticore.

A collaborative effort with FamousLastWords.

A collection of individual dark/creepypasta/horror stories. Nothing meant to scare your tail off, but I hope they give you a good shiver. Will be updated as I am able.

Written by 'red Sage
Cover art by 'red Sage

Twilight Eats Peaches.

She enjoys them. Very much so.

Twilight wants more...and she will do anything to have the delectable fruit at her side all day long! She casts a spell intending to transmogrify apples into peaches.

Naturally, it backfires. Unnaturally, Sweet Apple Acres isn't usually so...peachy.

"TWILIGHT!"

Casting magical spells is one thing. Surviving as a normal teenager in a different dimension is another. But for a certain fiery-maned unicorn humbled by defeat, the fragile journey to forgiveness will prove to be her most difficult challenge yet.

From her beginnings as a misguided filly to her final quest towards redemption, take the plunge and dare to trot in the horseshoes of “the pony Equestria forgot”.

The village had been perfect, free from the inequality and misery rampant throughout the rest of Equestria. Then Twilight Sparkle and her so-called friends arrived and ruined everything.

But all hope is not lost. Starlight Glimmer has a plan to restore her lost utopia on a much vaster scale.

After all, it's not like that purple princess was friends with anything worse.

Story contains spoilers for the Season 5 premiere, nonspecific allusions to torture, and nuts. Story does not contain Nikita Khruschev or shoes.