Sunshine Smiles enjoys the promise of a new day, the rosy reds of dawn, the moment when the new sun's light kisses Equestria.

Moonlight Raven prefers the thoughtful solitude of the night, the soft shadows of moonlight and the peaceful silence of a slumbering city.

Moving across Equestria was not what Derpy had in mind for her senior year of school. She left all her friends behind just before Hearth's Warming, and found herself in a new school. Now she has to make new friends, as well as prepare herself for life outside school, a task complicated by a decision she makes during Winter Wrap-Up.

A Pony Planet story

Some ponies like chocolate or flowers or a trip to the spa, or maybe just staying at home and chilling with their special somepony.

KitKat isn't one of those ponies. Her idea of a perfect Hearts and Hooves Day is . . . different.

Having a pony roommate was an adjustment; there was a lot about Earth she had to get used to . . . and a lot of ideas she'd brought with her that you had to get used to.

She was a heck of a cook, though, and didn't mind sharing, so you were more than willing to let her have the kitchen.

And then you came home and discovered that she was making butter. Which she must have known she could buy at the grocery store if she wanted butter.

Now with a Russian translation by Mordaneus!
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1,651 miles. Five states. One rambunctious filly.

The nice thing about traveling with Petunia Paleo is that it's easy to find activities we both enjoy. For example, the dinosaur exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum.

I think she'll like the Greenfield park memorializing NASCAR champion Alan Kulwicki. It's a trip down memory lane for me, and the perfect place to let my earth pony passenger get the 'I've been cooped up in a car and then a hotel for days' out of her system. Especially since we still have over eight hundred miles to drive before we get home.

This story dedicated to Alan Dennis Kulwicki, December 14, 1954 – April 1, 1993.

Pre-read & edited by Admiral Biscuit & Wanderer D

This story is a sequel to Vehicle...Allegedly

Tradition dictates that Pennsylvania towns ring in the new year by dropping things. Harrisburg has a strawberry, Lebanon drops a 100-pound bologna, Dillsburg drops a pickle, Cornwall has a cannonball, Mechanicsburg drops a wrench, while York and Lancaster drop roses (white and red, respectively).

Buck Motorsports Park is dropping a truck after a demolition derby and fireworks extravaganza? Okay, you’ve got my attention…

Need deniable arson? Anger a kirin!

Preread by Samey90. Discussions and BSing with the usual crowds, thanks!

Hearth's Warming is a wonderful time of year for most ponies. Getting together, singing, eating traditional foods, seeing old friends… and family.

But when that family is broken, or trying to heal, sometimes things can be a little harder.

Written for Admiral Biscuit, who requested some slice of life flavored with secondary background pones, as his Jinglemas 2023 gift! These may not be the most obscure, but theirs is a burgeoning family dynamic that I appreciated seeing. Cover art by mlplary6, source in image.

CW: Divorce, brief discussion of toxic relationships

Going into volleyball season, everybody expected Sunset and Kerfuffle to shine—an unstoppable combo at the net, they proved their talent in the first game, crushing rival Crystal Prep.

Then Kerfuffle lost her leg.

And it's all Sunset's fault.

Written for Rewan Demontay for Jinglemas 2023

Fueled by courage and armed with technology and a van, the tornado ponies are on Earth to both study tornados for the benefit of humans and gather data to improve predictions. Dusty's a grizzled veteran of storm-chasing, and the ponies were born for it, but neither pegasi nor humans can totally predict where a tornado will go or what it might do.

A story for Ponyville Ciderfest's Scattered Pages