Octavia's new to Ponyville, and she just bought a used couch.  As it turns out, she has to move the heavy thing clear across town on her lonesome.  That isn't the problem.  The problem is these damn crazy ponies who won't stop pestering her.

Cover Art by faloxx

My name is Short Skirts and Explosions, and I write a lot of crap.

That said, here's a collection of incomplete stories and/or rough drafts of stories that I would eventually improve into final drafts worthy of Fimfiction and Equestria Daily.  This is by no means supposed to add canonical weight to any of the other drivel that I have written, but rather it's meant to show off lengthy pieces of literature that I've poured my heart and soul into, regardless of how much they might suck the proverbial teat of lameness.  The material provided here is either stuff that I won't release in complete form, or is writing that is so incredibly different from the final drafts that they almost feel like completely separate stories on their own.  Sometimes I like to share the worst I have to offer, as well as the best.  Dislike to your heart's content, or else enjoy the junk for what it is.

"My handsome little cherub, close your eyes.

Mommy's going to give you clear blue skies.

So you’ll laugh and dance and play in the air.

And sing the song of angels everywhere."

Most of the time, Applejack is honest.  A lot of times, she's a dependable pony.

Then, sometimes, she's full of militant squirrels piloting her in a war with the Chipmunk Confederacy over a sacred acorn.

Scootaloo has always looked up to Rainbow Dash as a mentor or an older sister.  So, when Rainbow Dash promises to give Scootaloo flying lessons one afternoon, it makes the little filly's entire day.

The sad thing about promises, though: just like bodies in gravity, they can shatter.

Rainbow Dash turns thirty, and it's just like any week, month, year, or decade of her life.

Rainbow Dash just wants a bottle of Dr. Pony from the vending machine.  Is that too much to ask?

When the Cutie Mark Crusaders dig up an ancient magical artifact, they unleash a spell on the town that allows everypony to see a "lie meter" floating above each other's heads. While attempting to solve the mystery, Twilight Sparkle has to analyze the tenuous balance between friendship and honesty. She doesn't like what she finds.

Based on a story idea conceived by theworstwriter

Written and posted with his permission

Princess Luna visits Scootaloo in her dreams, telling her to face her fears again... and again and again and again and again and...

Special thanks to Spotlight for the cover art.

A horrible Cataclysm has turned all of Equestria into a Wasteland of barren ash and twilight desolation. The Sun and the Moon have been destroyed. Everypony has died--including Princesses Luna and Celestia. But one pony miraculously survives; she is a lone wanderer, the last of her kind, surrounded by menacing creatures that hate her. She navigates the Wastes in an airship and scavenges off the blighted landscape to keep herself alive.

Then one day she meets an old companion who grants her a gift, the chance to go back in time to the warm and sunny days of Ponyville, where her dead friends live in happiness. How far will the last pony venture into this joyous age of Equestria, even if she fully knows that there is no way to change the horrible fate of everypony she loves?

2013 Edition:  Smaller Chapters, Better Grammar, and a Few New Scenes

(A shout-out to Vimbert, pre-reader and gentlecolt)

(Cover image by Valhalla-Studios)

(New Story Arc - Marchish)