On a rare visit to the dreaded Cloudsdale market, Fluttershy encounters a pair of tourists determined to find a mythical creature and determined to get in each other's way. Things get weirder from there.

In the grand circus of Equestria's national security, Ahuizotl is but a sideshow. He is little more than a fly buzzing around the armpit of the land, his jungle filled with dying temples and his once proud race almost completely forgotten.

However, he does have his uses.

When the Queen of the Changelings refuses to stick her neck out for a dying soldier, Moulder’s passionate love drives her beyond convention to seek a deal with the dreaded Sorceress, who seems more interested in a fairy tale from long ago.

Submission for World-Building Alliance April-May Writing Competition.

It was the dawn of a new age in a new world, but old tales are just as willing as anyone to colonize a frontier. Legacies and innovations collide on the shores of the Amaponian continent. Yet the kidnapping of an orange farmer's foal leads three unlikely creatures to join hooves and paws at the forging of the next tale.

Submission for World-Building Alliance April-May Writing Competition.

While accompanying the Sheriff on an important errand in the desert, Braeburn ponders over the Appleloosan way of life.

When Twilight is visited by a distraught Applejack, she is asked to decipher the significance of a package containing five apple cores. Surely, this is the mystery of a lifetime?

Yet another short random piece with no ostensible moral. There's a cookie to whomever gets the title's inspiration, though.

The crystal ponies have captured a trespassing diamond dog, but for Electra, there's more at stake here than simply wondering how best to treat an old pest in a new world...

Rarity and Sweetie Belle may be on to something for the upcoming Flutter Pony Festival in Canterlot, but events a long way away threaten to derail their plans.

Some monsters rampage through the streets, but others hide in the darker places within pony homes. For those ones, a pony needs the monster catchers, and Jitters the donkey and Steel the minotaur are the best in the business. Unfortunately, they've never met each other before, and they’ve both been summoned by an important pony to deal with a very tricky customer…

Honeysuckle is a flutter pony, one of many from the Sweet Apple Acres hive, and she is starving. The heat wave of a particularly bad summer has forced them to take their chances on the orchard’s dwindling apple supply, which holds the best food available for miles around. But dangers are always waiting for her outside the nest, and the young earth pony who runs the farm will not be pleased when his already meagre stockpile begins to shrink.