An Actual One-Shot This Time

About the Cakes, in the generation before Cup Cake and her offworlder husband. There are some bits and pieces of the family's story which 'Pinkie' Rock wouldn't talk about, to anypony. But the things that Pinkie knows, and doesn't want to think about, are still important to the siblings and family she left behind in Ponyville.

We'll see what ends up working within Pinkie's story, and what ends up being its own thing. I'm playing matters by ear for the time being. TBH, I spent more time hacking out a not-particularly-good front-cover piece than the story itself, which just kind of poured out in almost real-time.