Sunset Shimmer reunites with an old school friend, who offers her an unusual role in the Crystal Empire. But then Sunset learns something unsettling about the last pony who held the job...

Maud Pie is a simple pony in a complicated world filled with nearly-impossible-to-understand creatures. Why don't others just say what they mean instead of using all those unnecessary words? Why don't they understand her when she says exactly what she means? If she tries to provide proper context to help them, they get bored. Still, she tries her best to be clear and make herself understood, even in the face of questions whose context is most of her life and the geological history of the world. In those little pauses before she speaks, Maud thinks fast. This is one such question.

Proofread by the wonderful Scribblestick

Glorious artwork and many others are from SambaNeko

Winner of Bicyclette's Maud contest!

Bureaucracy can be boring, especially to a young filly. 

Babysitting can be annoying, particularly to a changeling general.

When unfortunate circumstances force Princess Flurry Heart and Prince Pharynx into each other’s company—on Hearth’s Warming, no less—the two find that even if initial plans fall through, the resulting backup may not be all that bad.

This Breezie story was written for Yoshikage Kira as a part of Jinglemas 2021! For more information about Jinglemas, check out our group!

Cover art put together by Shakespearicles
And now with a reading by Nailah!

Luna struggles to rejoin modern Equestria and resume her place as diarch.

Celestia struggles to admit that it's not just Luna she needs to forgive.

Both of them have uncomfortable truths to face.

Izzy always goes out of her way to show that there is some colour to be found in Bridlewood. However, none of the other unicorns seems to share the same enthusiasm. However, one lonely cold night, Izzy finds something blowing in the wind that gives her hope in something.

Inspired by the fanart You Have Friends
By pfeffarooart

Big thank you to StraightToThePointStudio for reading this story:
Wishing Lantern by StraightToThePointStudio

Pinkie Pie is a very busy mare. Between her friends and her family, her party-planning job and her world-saving Element duties, she barely has any time for herself. Sometimes she wishes she had some help.

This wish is answered in the form of a small changeling, lost and alone.

Little did she or he know what series of events this would kickstart, or the marvelous new chapter it would open in the party mare's life.

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Cover Art and Proofreading by NecroHorse.

Doing laundry is always a chore, and sometimes I envied my pony neighbor for rarely having to do laundry. Until I found out she wasn't allowed to wash her blankets.

It’s an unfair rule and shouldn’t apply to ponies, but the laundromat clerk won’t budge. A creative solution is required.

For Bicyclette’s Thousand Words contest

Now with a reading by StraightToThePointStudio!

Now with a reading by Rainbow Infinity Readings!

Now with a Chinese translation by FLX071!

Canterlot’s best kept secret is the Incognito Cart, a food cart that sells all the greasy, deep-fried, spicy, butter-caked foods no posh pony would ever be caught dead eating. As part of the rules, every pony present must remain 100% anonymous.

But in a place where every pony is a Stranger, there might also be something else worth finding here...

The Wonderbolt Barracks are haunted, but not very well. Which is weaker: Fluttershy’s nerve, or one sorry specter’s skills at spooking?

Brief, awkward comedy featuring fumbling characters doing their very best with the skills that they have.

This is an entry in the Snippet Series, an anthology of old oneshots that I (and my good buddy Str8aura) wrote based around interesting pics I found. New ones will be posted every Thursday for the foreseeable future.

With the opening of the Equestrian embassy in Kansas City comes a new age of interspecies cooperation. Naturally, the first pony tourists want to explore the most exciting of all places in the US Midwest: Wamego Kansas on the Fourth of July

Editing assistance by Tek and Admiral Biscuit

Picture schleped together out of some public domain clip art and scribbles