(or, Sleestack Writes Romance)

I promised myself I'd never write romance. I'm just not good at it. But that was before.

Now... I'm not sure. Something in the air... maybe it's love, maybe it's me selling out in an attempt to get views, or maybe it's the demon over my shoulder, but... I'm inspired.

To change the face of the romance genre, possibly forever.

(Multi-chapter, will update.)

The Apple Family's always been close. But Applebloom and Applejack at least seem to have lives outside of Sweet Apple Acres. Big Macintosh has never had an easy time befriending anypony outside the acres, and so it should come as no surprise that everypony believes he is a lonely and friendless stallion who spends all his days working the fields in solitude. But little do they know of the mysterious filly that has entered his life to turn his heart and mind upside-down one giggle at a time.

Well, that took hardly any time at all...

What am I doing with my liiiiiiiiiiiife

For a typical brony, getting transported into the mystical land of Equestria would be a dream come true!

Well, that's fine and dandy and everything, except when that happens to Trip, who isn't exactly a fan of My Little Pony. In fact, he kind of hates it.

But things never work out the way he wants them to, anyway. Soon, he faces the tough reality of unreality, and finds out how hard it actually is to exist inside of a children's cartoon.

When you've reached the point of insanity, there's no going back, not really. Even when everyone else has forgotten, and you've convinced yourself that you can fit back into the world again, all it takes is one thing to make everything collapse around you.

Lyra tried to convince everyone she saw humans in the Everfree Forest. Once they grew tired of her, and started calling her insane, she stopped. And just as she starts to believe she's passed that point in her life, the river she frequently visits gives her a gift that makes her rethink everything she knows.

Author's Notes:
Woo! First One-Shot. This was pretty fun. Dark and moody description, pretty nice. Got a nifty little emo-looking photoshopped picture there, that's a nice touch. It's symbolic. Symbolic of what? Read the story to find out! (Oh, now you have to.)

Well, I'm not too familiar with the fanon about Lyra and her knowledge about humans, so I made up a lot of it for the purpose of this story. If something doesn't fit with what the community at large agrees on, I'm sorry, kind of. It's all fiction anyway.

I don't write shipping stories, but for all of you that are crazy about it, I left some room open for interpretation about weather L+BB were in a relationship. Honestly, I don't care, and I don't think it has any impact on the story, so I left it out. But I didn't put in anything that said they weren't. So there.

Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, if you couldn't tell.

That's about it, I think.