It was supposed to be an easy delve. In, explore, and out.

Instead Daring Do finds herself wandering through an endless corridor, wishing for nothing more than to see the sky once more. And when she reaches the end of the maze, she discovers something waiting for her that hasn't felt the sun for a long, long time. Something very lonely.

And hungry.

After a fire in the Everfree Forest severely damages Zecora's home, the Cutie Mark Crusaders vow to bring the Pony responsible to justice.

An entry for the February Write Off competition.

UPDATE: Edited with fixes and some slight scene changes Mar. 12.

“When the Moon fell in love with the Sun, all was golden in the sky, all was golden when the Day met the Night.”

—Ancient Equestrian legend on the meeting of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.

Entry for the 2015 Everfree Northwest Pre-Con Writing Contest

Story Title and themes inspired by song with the same title, by Panic! at the Disco.

In the final days of her life, an exceptionally faithful student muses on the subject of her perfect and immortal mentor Applejack.

Now with Spanish translation by Spaniard Kiwi!

A Pinkie Promise is a dangerous thing. There are Tartaran contracts that are less strictly enforced. Making one before your first cup of coffee is just asking for trouble.

Based on a prompt by Bad Horse.

With Hearth's Warming approaching, Applejack takes a moment to chat up a fellow vendor at the Ponyville market, and find what she thinks is a pony in need of a friend. But the holidays mean different things for different ponies, and some don't necessarily celebrate Hearth's Warming as Applejack does.

But it may be that there's still a way she can brighten up their holidays.

Entry for 2018 Jinglemas, written for Chris

Twilight Sparkle always wrote to Princess Celestia about her lessons in friendship. Sometimes, Celestia wrote back. Even if Twilight didn't know it.

Expanded version of the ninth-place winner in the /fic/ mini write-off "Just Over the Horizon."

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Spike has a hoard nopony knows about, something he's been using to do a dragonish thing in a ponyish way.

But now it's the other way 'round.

Art by Akili_Amethyst, used by kind permission of its owner, TwilightIsMagic

Cheerilee assigns her class to make a presentation of a personal hero, a pony who they admire.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders debate as to who each will choose.

Made for /mlp/'s daily 30-min writing prompt. Again, it took over half an hour, but I'm getting close!

A collection of short stories written for the Thirty Minute Pony Stories Blog. My favorites are "Obsolete," "Wingmares," and "Just Like You."

Descriptions:
1. "Obsolete" – Prompt: Applejack falls
Summary: Apple Bloom challenges Applejack to an apple harvesting contest.

2. "Anxiety" – Prompt: Your mind makes it real.
Summary: Fluttershy has a panic attack during her date with Twilight.

3. "Quantum Leap" – Prompt: This is the last line of a story: She closed the gate behind her, confident she would never need to open it again. Your prompt is to write the sequel.
Summary: Twilight finally returns home after getting lost in a series of alternate universes.

4. "Wingmares" – Prompt: Write a story in the second person in which the perspective character (i.e. “you”) is one of the Mane Six or Spike.
Summary: Rainbow Dash asks for Fluttershy's help fighting against a storm.

5. "Invisible Mare" – Prompt: Twilight Sparkle disappears, and only one pony remembers she was ever there at all.
Summary: Ponyville moves on after Twilight leaves for Canterlot

6. "Rainbows over Manehattan" – Prompt: Three ups and three downs of three ponies being in love.
Summary: The Cutie Mark Crusaders move to Manehattan and adjust to life in the Big Apple.

7. "With Some Help from my Friends" – Prompt: Explorers of the Sky.
Summary: Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom help Scootaloo realize her dreams.

8. "Taken for Granite" – Prompt: Ship one of the mane six with someone who isn’t a pony.
Summary: Pinkie surprises the girls with the identity of her new lover.

9. "Seven Minutes in Heaven" – Prompt: Two are stuck in a room.
Summary: Unabashed Twishy shipping

10. "Love in the Time of Changelings" – Prompt: The only way out is if someone dies.
Summary: Pinkie and her changeling coltfriend, Instar, must escape from the Canterlot dungeons.

11. "Just Like You" – Prompt: All good things must come to an end.
Summary: To Scootaloo, Ponyville just isn't the same without Rainbow Dash around.