Vinyl's daily morning routine gets a nice surprise addition.

Written for Equestria Daily's Friend Off Revival.

[ 2nd Person fic starring YOU and SOARIN ]
Wake up, go to work, go home, repeat.
This is the schedule of your average day as a Lieutenant in the prestigious Royal Guard, and you're perfectly content with that. Life continues on as normal as ever until you meet Soarin, Captain of the Wonderbolts for the first time.
And then your life changes in a way that you wouldn't ever have guessed.

Yes, this is a gay fic.

Rated Teen for mild language and sexual references. There will be no clop in this story (I will be posting clop in a separate, Mature story).

Picture created by Skipsy. God I love Skipsy
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Twilight Sparkle has never had much appreciation for the softer works of literature. ‘There were books, and then there were books,’ is what she would say when presented with a book of poetry.

One night not long before Nightmare Night, Princess Celestia figured out exactly how to bridge the two worlds together for Twilight: a reading assignment on one of the very first science fiction books ever written, entitled simply Frankenstein.

It was the perfect plan.

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A nervous stallion goes all in by asking the shy mare he likes. He only hopes the assassin's costume he gave her helps him make this Nightmare Night something spectacular.

Thank you to those who proofread, Magello, RK_Striker, and Cyberbolt.

Being the pinnacle culinary achievement for rising bakers, the Annual Canterlot Bake-Off is one of the largest events of its kind. Ponies Equestria-wide come to show off their crafts, eager to prove the supremacy of their art. To many, it is the first step on the road to greatness.

For Cupcake, it is an unending thorn in her side. Every year she has entered, and every year she has lost to lesser chefs simply because they smile and display emotion.

But she'll keep fighting.

The old castle in the Everfree. Twilight Sparkle knows it's full of secrets that are still waiting to see the light of day. On her most recent exploration of the ruins, however, she finds something that she left there years ago.

Not all things know defeat in death.

Spike thinks he has a pretty good life.

He has amazing friends, a brand new castle to live in, and the most amazing big sister anyone could ever ask for.

Spike thinks he couldn't, nor shouldn't, ask for any more.

.....So why does this weird... lady say he has nothing? And for that matter, why can no one else see her besides Spike?

Oh come on! She's just joking around! She must be lying... she has to be...

"They came from deep beneath the ocean. Monsters. The first came ashore at Canterbury. It slaughtered ten million lives before the bombers arrived. Canterbury ceased to exist that day, the day Celestia allowed Solar magic to be used in anger. She swore never again, but another monster came. Another city. Another broken promise. We knew it wouldn't end. We knew we had to do something. So to fight those monsters, we created Monsters of our own.

When Bon-Bon has to leave Ponyville for a while to deal with a family crisis in Manehattan, Lyra writes her a letter every day. And every day, she gets a letter back. What could possibly be wrong with such loving devotion?

So why is everyone growing steadily more worried about her?

Written for the 2014 Friend-Off on EQD. Based on this picture.

Reviewed by Singularity Dream here.

Derpy Hooves, the mailmare of Ponyville. The only mailmare of Ponyville, to be exact. She knows every letter and package that is sent, and she knows who gets a lot of mail, and who doesn't get anyhing at all.

Rarity seldom gets any mail, and now, somepony is sending her love letters. Somepony who doesn't give out their name.

Derpy follows the affair at a safe distance, hoping that one day, the anonymous pony and Rarity will find each other.

And until that day, Derpy will do her delivery route, as she does every day, sunshine or rain.

Just a quick sweet thing, written in like one hour. Now edited with the help of Psi-nova! Thanks mate!

Cover pic by RavingSpectrum