This is my fault – the student who needed me the most was the one I couldn't help.

I can't stop coming back here, to ponder where I went wrong, and what that means for both of us.

The worst part? How easily it could have been me... and why it wasn't.

Silver medal winner in the Discrepancy event on writeoff.me! Thanks writeoff gang for your feedback, as always!

Sunset Shimmer has grown and changed from who she was. For a long time she's kept to her own path through life in the human world and kept her silence from across the rift that separates her from Princess Celestia.

But there's something important to say and a lot of healing still left to do.

It's time they talked again.

Finalist in the Forbidden Knowledge event on http://writeoff.me/. A big thank you to everyone who critiqued and reviewed the story there.

Thanks to a newly found common interest, Rainbow Dash and Rarity seem to be getting along great—right up until they have a very sudden, and very hurtful, falling out.

But Rainbow Dash thinks that maybe there's more going on than it looks like on the surface. Could an old toy be the key to unlocking the solution to a serious problem?

Pre-read / proofread by Georg and Lazy Gray.

Entry for Scribblefest 2016

Rarity loves making dresses, and especially wedding dresses.
But the fine line between inspiration and jealously can be so hard to walk – and hardest of all is when they begin bleeding together.

Gold medal winner in the writeoff.me "Cutting Corners" event.
Thank you to Baal Bunny, Terrus Stokkr, and No Raisin for their reviews and feedback.

Cover art by me, messing around in Inkscape.

In this tribute to "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", Discord decides to keep winter from ending so he can spend more time with Fluttershy. But will it all work out the way he intends?

Everypony has at least one event in their life which they would rather forget. It may be a cause of humiliation, shock or dismay for all those involved, but such times allow a formative experience which helps us grow into the ponies we've become today. That may be so because we discover something new within ourselves, or because we've had that one, or two, or three but probably one figure to guide us past our mistakes. If they raise the sun too, that's a bonus.

When the whimsicality of the situation is highlighted in verse reminiscent of one Dr Seuss, you too can understand the sheer gravitas of failure. And thus, a young Twilight Sparkle initiates her employment in the Canterlot Archives as an assistant. And Spike learns the true value of slumber.

EDIT: reworked some lines which didn't flow or rhyme well, and fixed tenses in a couple of places. Also, 100 views woohoo!

Every pony in Ponyville liked Hearth's Warming a lot, but a certain spirit of chaos and disharmony did not....
Disgusted with the harmonious holiday of Hearth's Warming, Discord vows to bring some chaos to the season.
Basically, an MLP version of Dr. Seuss's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". Hope you all enjoy, and happy holidays!

Edit: check out the online reading done by NDLMongoose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTsD3dgxQ7A

In Spiketopia, Big Mac is a unicorn. When he created his character, he choose to be a unicorn, rather than an Earth Pony.

In his dreams, he is also a unicorn, or sometimes even an alicorn. When he got the choice to be anything or anyone he wanted, he choose to become an alicorn.

Now alone in the evening, walking home from guy’s night, he has ample of time to reflect on these choices and the secret wish they stem from.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, right? WRONG!
Ok, yeah second chance at life nice, not so nice; I now live with pastel colored ponies. yep, life is just great.
I might have been ok with this, but I wasn't for these reasons.
1: Everyone was a horse!
2: They only ate vegetables!
3: I got a mom, I mean I really didn't need a mom, especially a pastel pony mom!
4: Everyone thought I was sort of a freak! I'm the human, that's normal! They were talking horses with magic, that's messed up!
5: I went from an adult, to a frickin' kid!
But, hey, at least I'm alive right?

Rated Teen just to be safe and because there is mild swearing.

Well it had to happen sooner or later. Princess Celestia and Ronald Reagan, two characters from a very different species in their same political prime have found a common goal and have deemed it necessary to meet. They've met only once in the past, and each respect the other's form of diplomacy, so could it be this is the beginning of a mutually benefical relationship between the two nations? Princess Celestia is a firm believer in the power of sharing, friendship, and all the things that make a "Good Communist" and Reagan leads a nation in which independence is pushed and the benefit of society overall is collectively disregarded, so is it possible to find common ground on the Soviet dilemma? Will the decisions be successful, or will the presiding leaders of each nation walk away with a new enemy?

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Put the vacation on hiatus for a few hours. Unfortunately enough, yet fortunately, my nextdoor neighbor offered me some cash to fix his busted keyboard. It was a fairly simple thing to fix, but just to test it I decided to write this short story. That boring thing aside, I saw a special on TV about the cold war and noticed that I've got two new DVR episodes for My Little Pony AND was born when Reagan was president, so I put three and three together to get this little short!

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Maybe this'll do good for such a short, super random story. I'm a politically minded man, so I'd like to see where the comments go with this one!