Lookin' back now, I shoulda known. Funny how that works. Ya go through the day-to-day never suspectin' a thing, but then when you think back on it, the clues were all there in front of ya, ya just never quite put 'em together. If I had, then… well, maybe then it never would have come to this.

Happy Nightmare Night

Rainbow wishes to be Captain of the Wonderbolts, and wakes up the next morning to find that everything in her life has changed.

Winner of The “Gave Admin Ferlathin too many feels” Award in the first writing contest in The Writer's Group.

Music is everything for Octavia but, one night when she visits a café run by Princess Luna, she may find she wants more in her life.

Entry for the Random Romance contest: Octavia and Luna

This story is a sequel to One Day in the Life of Princess Celestia

Three days after an uncomfortable conversation with Princess Luna about a dream Rarity had about herself with Celestia, Twilight, and Luna, she finds that everyone is treating her strangely. What she doesn't realize is that everyone knows about the dream...but they think it really happened. What will it take for Rarity to get her life back to normal?

This story is a sequel to Princess Luna Visits a Wet Dream

Princess Celestia has been ruling Equestria for hundreds if not thousands of years. And yet it's always the same. They don't change, they don't learn to do things for themselves. Eventually an immortal being gets tired of it all.

A/N: I've noticed I write a lot of dialogue and not much else. As a challenge to myself, I decided to write this one without writing out any dialogue whatsoever.

Princess Luna, carrying out her normal duties of watching over the dreams of her subjects, comes across one of a more intimate variety. Normally unfazed by such dreams, this one embarrasses her into leaving quickly. Despite her decision to never think about the dream again—like always—she can't help but remember a single detail from it. A detail so strange she feels the need to talk to the dreamer about it. Unfortunately, she doesn't know who the dreamer was.

Awkwardness ensues.

For more story, read: One Day in the Life of Princess Celestia
For more awkward comedy (and story), read: Everypony Knows About the Wet Dream

This is a collection of short stories in which I carefully avoid using cliché fanfiction responses to certain situations. It will also serve as practice writing characters that I may not be comfortable putting into a larger story yet, so feedback is appreciated.

If anyone has a suggestion for a cliché I should avoid, let me know in the comments, and I will consider writing a story in which I don't use it.

Below is the current list of stories and which clichés I'm avoiding in them.
The Great and Powerful Shopkeep [Slice of Life] - Twilight and Trixie love/hate relationship
D.R.P. Mail [Slice of Life][Random]?(I don't really know what to define this one as.) - "Derpy not being clumsy while delivering mail." - SuperChaosKG
Performance [Slice of Life] - Octavia and Vinyl Scratch love/hate relationship

Pinkie Pie writes a cookbook and she has Twilight help her test it out. The problem is, her recipes aren't exactly... conventional. (No, "Pony" is not the secret ingredient.)

~This story takes place before the season 3 finale~
Twilight receives a new book from Celestia; a book of dark magic. When she casts a spell from it, against Celestia's instructions, will she go to Celestia for help undoing the damage?

Maybe somepony would, but this is Twilight Sparkle we're talking about.

Note: The events of Where is Everypony? occurred as portrayed in the epilogue at around the beginning of this story.

Apple Bloom comes home late from crusading afraid of being punished for being gone so long. The next morning, her concerns quickly shift when she can't find her family... or anypony else. Are they all out looking for her and her friends, or has something gone terribly wrong? And what is that sound that keeps getting closer?

A prequel of sorts to Twilight's Library.