I've seen a lot of Super Persistent Predator type stories in various media, and they generally suffer from a total lack of explanation as to why the animal starts behaving so oddly. When I was younger, I simply accepted it; now that I know more about ethology it makes little sense.

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Taken from part of an unpublished story, in the Before Nightfall alternate universe, but these weapons were created before the Point of Divergence and hence exist in the main SWSV worldline as well:

For there had been two sisters, Dawnflower and Duskflower. Two daughters, who were first cousins: Green Apple and Apple Rose. And two husbands of those cousins, Black Smith and Apfel Strudel. And those husband had been fellow agents of the Night Watch -- and boon friends.

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My novelette Before Nightfall: Barely Rescued is now complete and published. It measures out at 16,583 words.

I am so happy that I was able to start and finish something moderately short yet multi-chaptered in just about a month. So often, I procrastinate and fail to finish.

I'm also content with where I took the story.

I know I'll be combing out some typos in times to come, and I always welcome having them indicated to me -- it makes the final edits much easier.

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I have noticed that I tend to pace different stories differently, and one of the tools I use for this is control of chapter length. On one extreme, I wrote His Recipe For Love (NSFW, it's an erotic horror story with both sex and gore, set two and a half centuries before the series) as a single 11,334 word long chapter, something I did intentionally so that the reader would not break at any point, but instead absorb

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"Before Nightfall" is my operating title for a series of stories about the Moonlight Six, and other Ponies of Equestria, in the Nightmare Moon worldline that Starlight Glimmer and Twilight Sparkle created while having their Tempus Fugue battle, after the worldline split off in 1490 but before the actual return of Nightmare Moon. At this point, Princess Celestia rules Equestria and NIghtmare Moon is still imprisoned; nopony knows that history has been pushed off the track that Celestia

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