Upon earning his place in the Mighty Helm, Rockhoof joins his fellow warriors in the mead hall and finds his first challenge: determining what is the right thing to do. All the more crucial, when war is imminent between ponies and griffons.

Entry for Writeoff FiM Short Story Round, Event 91. Prompt: All the Time in the World.

As the Pillar of Beauty, Mistmane is distressed to find her home left to decay, but a mysterious stranger offers her a chance to set things right again. Meanwhile, Daring Do is nearby, exploring a creepy temple, home to a dark secret.

Entry for Writeoff FiM Short Story Round, Event 91. Prompt: All the Time in the World.

A Creator God's Final Exam, an alchemy experiment gone chaotically right, dreams of a non-existent time, and Thunderlane's curse of the second place. Yes! These are Blue Chameleon VI's Writeoff Contestants for the Prompt: "It Could Have Gone Better"

Uncreatable
Original Character
Comedy, Sci-Fi

An Alchemist and his Boy
Original Character, Discord
Comedy, Historical, Horror

Nostalgic Utopia
Original Character, Royal Guard
Drama, Sad

Quiet Thunder
Thunderlane, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy
Drama, Slice of Life
Warning: Contains Poetry

This story is a sequel to Impossible Numbers' Flashfic Anthology, Volume One

Twinkleshine simply wants to bask in the untarnished glory of the heavens with her best friend Minuette. Is that too much to ask!?

Genres: Slice of Life, Comedy
Prompt: "A Lovely Night, Ruined"
Original Source: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/212112/flashfic/thread/349811/closed-flashfic-150-february-2018-a-lovely-night-ruined#comment/6309117

Despite being sisters, Dinky and Amethyst are as different as rocks and hearts. One must live as her own mare and not as a patronized child; the other just stifles her. But what will Dinky learn once she leaves home for her own life?

Genres: Drama, Bittersweet
Prompt: "What You Leave Behind"
Original Source: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/212112/flashfic/thread/352754/closed-flashfic-150-march-2018-what-you-leave-behind#comment/6339368
N.B. Since the original version received substantial criticism, this version has been updated accordingly, to meet that criticism without fundamentally changing the spirit of the original text.

From humble beginnings, Lyra Heartstrings just wants to make her parents proud when she finally makes it to Canterlot.

Genres: Drama, Slice of Life
Prompt: "Waiting Time"
Original Source: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/212112/flashfic/thread/308613/flashfic-150-open-practice-thread-prompt-waiting-time#comment/6365448

Minuette takes part in the Advanced Chronology course. Twinkleshine takes a moment to find out what that entails, and soon regrets it.

Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life
Prompt: "No Time Like the Present"
Original Source: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/212112/flashfic/thread/355571/closed-flashfic-150-april-2018-no-time-like-the-present#comment/6380855

Somnambula longs for the grand gardens of her forsaken past. So, against all common sense, she hires the Flower Trio to make a new one.

Genre: Comedy
Prompt: "Kindness and a Garden"
Original Source: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/212112/flashfic/thread/359312/closed-flashfic-150-may-2018-kindness-and-a-garden#comment/6418894
N.B. Similar to Outclassed above, this entry has been edited in order to meet the criticisms of the original.

Twilight wants Applejack and Fluttershy to tell her honestly what they think of her latest friendship-teaching tool.

Genre: Slice of Life, Comedy
Prompt: "Now We're Friends"
Original Source: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/212112/flashfic/thread/363089/closed-flashfic-150-june-2018-now-were-friends#comment/6466140

When Dinky recruits a living Pillar of Friendship for her history project, Somnambula is asked to relate what life a thousand years ago was like.

Genre: Drama, Comedy
Prompt: "What were you thinking?"
Original Source: https://www.fimfiction.net/group/212112/flashfic/thread/365346/flashfic-150-july-2018-what-were-you-thinking#comment/6494074

When Lyra was only a child, she had an active imagination. So active that it far outclassed the dismal drudgery of reality. Of what had just happened to her. But she can't hide from the truth forever...

Entry for Writeoff FiM Short Story Round, Event 87. Prompt: The Other Side.

After being freed from Starlight's control, Double Diamond and Sugar Belle struggle to shake off her influence. Then they start to wonder: are there other villages in the desert – and other ponies – who need their help too?

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Entry for Writeoff FiM Short Story Round, Event 87. Prompt: The Other Side.

Limestone Pie is more than a little annoyed to discover a budding archaeologist wants to try her luck at their rock farm, but nevertheless takes it upon herself to look after the kid. And to make sure she stays the hell away from Holder's Boulder.

Entry for Writeoff FiM Short Story Round, Event 87. Prompt: The Other Side.

Back from another military campaign, Captain Rainbow Dash is entrusted with a less-than-ideal squad to whip into shape. Arguably worse are the strange kidnappings, the interspecies conflicts, and her friend Fluttershy repeatedly getting into trouble.

Unlike Aria Blaze and Sonata Dusk, the siren Adagio Dazzle is neither a childish idiot nor an apathetic layabout. She has vision. She has purpose. She has drive.

So when – after their spectacular defeat at the hands of the Rainbooms – the trio of terror wind up incarcerated as a result of another failed scheme, she utterly refuses to take it lying down. Nothing in her past has taught her to accept failure. Nothing.

However, the longer she spends in this cell, and the more she has to put up with the irritations and insults of the other two, the more she starts to wonder if something else is going on. Something far more sinister than yet another tedious setback.

Prince Hisan, now pharaoh, is plagued by a mysterious affliction that torments him nightly. Ever hopeful, Somnambula ventures forth to seek the help of Princess Luna, for she is now a shining light in dark places. But lights CAN be extinguished…