Eternity is a long time, especially if you're alone. And when you've turned your only real friend into stone, sometimes you have to make do.

A child falls from the stars in a pod of steel, is saved by Luna herself, and is entrusted to the care of Captain Riot Shield, retiring Night Guardspony.

With instructions to make sure the child is healthy and happy until something comes to retrieve it, and no prior experience with children, let alone an alien child from the stars, Riot's facing what might be his hardest mission yet.

A day in the life of everyone's favourite artistically-talented solar tyrant legitimate ruler, while she has a case of dysentery and a full schedule of evil to carry out.

A longer-than-expected story spawned of a typo where "Clenched" was mistakenly used in place of "Clichéd". It's going to be as good as you'd expect.

It's the year 2018, do you know where your Harmony is?

In the year 2018 AD (After Discord) Equestria finds itself in the grip of yet another tyranny. The Regent rules Equestria with her legion of iron hooved Clockwork Soldiers, and the skies are dark with perpetual winter and pollution. Pegasus magic is forbidden, as is flight, and unicorns reign supreme in Canterlot and elsewhere. Harmony is long since gone, the bearers scattered to the four winds and dispersed without a trace. The Princesses are nowhere to be found, vanishing scarce a day after the Regent seized power. Attempts to overthrow the Regent have been met with violence, and now nopony dares move against the Regent's wishes.

On the outskirts of Ponyville, three friends who used to be the Cutie Mark Crusaders find themselves in peril, and Scootaloo finds a mantle by which she can save not just her friends, but perhaps a little bit more...

Equestria needs a hero now more than ever. It's time that somepony stood up to the Regent again. It's time for Mare Do Well to rise once more, and teach another lesson in humility.

The last of Humanity decides to take their due from Equestria, with middling results.

A story set in the aftermath of a TCB universe. Don't read if you can't handle humans being the bad guys.

While trying to clear her debt with some rather nasty ponies, Vinyl Scratch accidentally finds herself responsible for a three million bit sparkle deal gone wrong, and with less than a week to fix it or die.

Skalrath is the sort of changeling that doesn't stop rolling. Every day, a new face, every night, a new mare to harvest love from. Platonic stuff, but it's a living and it lets him make quota for the hive.

But following the Canterlot Wedding, even he runs afoul of a hard landing... and a newly-made orphan. Unable to bring himself to kill or set loose the colt, he decides to exercise his family act and take a short holiday from the grind that is his work.

It's only a week off, it's not like he's going to take the mother's place permanently... right?

During the reign of Discord, Luna and Celestia travelled far and abroad. And while crossing a desert far from Equestria, Luna met the most curious race she's ever met, one for whom to laugh is to live:

Hyenas.

World Building Alliance March Prompt entry. (Proof of sub-5.5k-wordcount)

(I know the idea behind a 5k word limit is that I shouldn't need this "just under the limit" kind of proof, but whatever)

She's Sunset, the neighponese beauty. He's Scratch, that teal pegasus from across the street. Will he win her heart? Or will his be the latest to get cut into pieces by her rejection?

Harrow, the King of Rubies and draconic ruler of the Argenite Reaches, is coming to the end of a very long, prosperous rule. It's a reign that stretches far, with it's roots in the mists of time, when Discord ran rampant and Harmony did not yet exist.

A time when he did his part by slaying an unjust king and contributing one sixth of the Elements of Harmony.

WBA Feburary prompt entry. Proof of wordcount: http://i.imgur.com/WJAqsWg.jpg

Apparently, this was also good enough to earn second place. Take that as you will.