Opaline has finally been defeated, peace has been restored to Equestria, and all is well. But Sunny still has a few lingering, nagging questions that beg to be answered. And there's only one creature who can answer them: Dragon Lord Spike.

Journeying back to the dragon lands, Sunny requests another audience with the old dragon. She wants to know how he became dragon lord and why he left Twilight Sparkle so long ago, as well as it must have to do with Opaline.

Against his better judgement, Spike decides to share his memories with Sunny. And in the process, he might finally come to terms with some difficult parts of his past.

(Featured from 3/06/2024 to 3/07/2024.)

Twilight is nearing the her due date with her first foal. After her friends and family force her onto maternity leave, she devotes her time to the task she'd been putting off for months: picking a name for her son. Though for Twilight, it's never as simple as picking up a book. Luckily, a certain magic tool might come in handy.

Rainbow Dash has gained a mastery over her body, thanks to a lifetime of training. When she becomes pregnant and her body no longer obeys her as it once did, she struggles to deal with that. She's gaining weight in places she doesn't like, and finding issues with acts she once found simple, but has no choice except to see it through. She knew having a foal would forever change her life, but she wasn't expecting it like this.

This story is a $75 commission for Explodium, whose payment more than paid for the cover art by CowsRTasty.

Only a few months ago, Starlight finally rekindled her friendship with Sunburst, and despite promising to stay in touch, the planned letters never surfaced, by either. To this end, Twilight has brought Starlight back to the Crystal Empire, for little other reason than to make the two of them get closer - much closer - for a few days. But after learning from Sunburst of a new artifact discovered in the Empire that he is currently studying, Starlight is presented with a choice: with the power to rewrite the past entirely with little consequence, should one do it?

Manipulating the past can have drastic consequences, even if all intentions were for others' good...

Written for the short story compilation, Scattered Pages, a collaborative effort between multiple authors who volunteered for Ponyville Ciderfest 2023's writing team.

Cover art by slushpony. Edited by sonicsuns.

Twilight Sparkle and Flash Sentry's first meeting was not of this world. She knows their love was meant to be. Thanks to her recent assignments in the Crystal Empire, their relationship seems to be blossoming into something more lately. However, the ponies' current duties as a princess and a crystal royal guard pull them in different directions. Can the magic of their connection overcome the challenges of duty and distance, or will their love remain a distant star in the night sky of Equestria?

Inspiration

Everypony wants to find their knight in shining armor. Their true love. Their happily ever after. But can life really become a fairytale? Can the princess really get her knight?

In case anybody wants to read the tale of Princess Petunia and her knight, it can be found in the fourth chapter of my other fic, "Give them a push". The chapter is titled "Story Time".

Applejack gives her son a tour of Sweet Apple Acres, and thinks about the kind of pony he'll grow up to be.

This story was written for the second A Thousand Words Contest.

The cover art is by Graphene.

Conflict has been boiling between the two Apple siblings for a while now, but when the trouble between them seems to reach it’s climax, an unexpected twist leaves them back at square one. Big Macintosh, the hardworking backbone of Sweet Apple Acres, claims he isn’t Big Mac. He denies being himself, and denies being the big brother to Applejack.

At an impasse on what to do, Ponyville’s local psychiatrist is called to help find out what happened to Big Macintosh. Can she find out what is going on with him? Whatever the truth is, the mind inside of Big Macintosh makes one thing perfectly clear. “I Am Not Big Mac.”

Content Warnings: Discussion of Death, Loss, Grief. Explicit Language.

WARNING: Spoilers in the comments.

It's the night of the Grand Galloping Gala and every pony is dressed up and refined for this most enchanting evening. But for Twilight Sparkle, it's more of a bitter sweet evening. She's fallen in love for the first time, but doesn't know how to handle it. The stallion of her dreams is the Royal Guard, Flash Sentry, and she's too shy and insecure to see if he returns her feelings. So Princess Cadance steps in to help her sister-in-law have the most romantic evening of her life.

Pairing: Twilight Sparkle x Flash Sentry
Genre: Romance
Type: One Shot

Prince Blueblood is many things.

He's a Unicorn, He's royalty, He's a stallion, He's entitled, He's high-class, And most importantly he's not here right now.

If Blueblood isn't here right now, then who's that?

Well, That's Blueblood, the new Blueblood that is, a human in the body of Blueblood.

What will follow the actions of the new prince can be nothing short of disastrous.

Warning, this story contains Jokes, Magical Politics, a human-turned pony who doesn't know about MLP, Prince Blueblood doing Blueblood things, "Wine-Moms", and a very large sum of money.
You have been warned.

Featured for the first time two hours after being published :) 24/4/2023