Applejack passes on an old family recipe.
Written for MidnightDancer and included in The Incredible Amazeballs Jinglemas Secret Santa Compilation.
Applejack passes on an old family recipe.
Written for MidnightDancer and included in The Incredible Amazeballs Jinglemas Secret Santa Compilation.
Cadance and Blueblood try to stave off boredom on a snowy day. Or, at least they try to. Every time the matter of going outside comes up, Blueblood sure finds ways to come up with more excuses.
Some of them are far, far better reasons to stay inside than others.
This is an entry into Secret Moon's Self Isolation themed writing contest where it ended up getting an Honorable Mention for unique tone and characterization. You can read the spoiler-filled results here. The cover art has been edited by me, though there is the matter of that particularly stubborn 'S' (and the comma, but just ignore that I fiddled around with the art more than I would like to admit already). Buy this story! Contribute to the TVTropes page!
Argyle's birthday always leaves him feeling somehow hollow. Until one year, he finally remembers why...
An entry for Imposing Sovereigns III, with the prompt Flurry Heart / Patience.
For some ponies, friendship is magic. For others, it is a curse. Chrysalis, Queen of the Changelings, is freed from stone, to find herself once again the Queen of nothing. She flees her captors, and finds her thoughts turning once more to her errant children.
A one-shot speedwrite, completed in 40 minutes, written for the Quills and Sofas contest FiM 10th anniversary panic fiction contest, on the theme 'friendship is magic'. (update: won second place!)
Cherry Berry is an earth pony. Sometimes. And that's not the least of her problems; her insomnia is getting worse, and she can't keep her secret to herself any longer.
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Winner of the Cherry Berry 'new horizons' contest on Quills and Sofas.
Featuring Cherry Berry and Berryshine (also known as Berry Punch) as two sisters with a dark and mysterious secret.
EDIT: Likely to get a second chapter soon, as people have asked for one.
Sweetie Belle and Rarity have moved away from Ponyville, much to Sweetie's disgust. She hates the quiet and the snow, and she misses her friends. But all is not as it seems in the mountains, and a stranger is coming to visit...
A bit of a speedwrite, completed in about 2 and a half hours. Let me know what you think!
Luna has returned from her banishment to the moon, purified and reborn. She should be happy, but she feels lost. Who is she? She is not the Nightmare, but not yet the Princess of the Night that once she was.
Winner of the Quills and Sofas speedwrite contest themed on Princess Luna. One of my favourite princesses.
This story will eventually reappear as part of my behemoth origin story for the Princesses, but I liked it enough to publish it as a oneshot too.
Rainbow Dash is old and sick to death of being on 'wing rest'. She knows she's got more left to give, and she wants to give the world one last sonic rainboom. No matter what the cost.
TW: suicide mention.
A retrospective look at Rainbow's life, as told by Rainbow as she goes on one last herculean journey. Originally a speedwrite for the 100th contest for Quills and Sofas, now doubled in length and fleshed out more. Special thanks to all the Quills and Sofas members who edited, especially Flashgen.
Rainbow Dash is still competing, but she is not the racer she used to be. After her sixth consecutive loss to an old rival, she faces an unthinkable choice. Her old strength is within reach - but at what cost?
Written hr for the Psychedelics Contest, for the prompt ‘The only option left’. Came in third.
There's something dark lurking in the corner of Diamond Tiara's bedroom, inside the closet where she keeps her dresses. It watches her every night, and she knows that if she looks away it will take the chance to creep closer. Maybe that's why she's afraid to fall asleep.
Winner of the Quills and Sofas ‘Mind of a child’ speedwrite contest, with the prompt ‘monster in the closet’.Written in 1hr 15.