Sparkler has been waiting for Neighvana to come to Ponyville for months. Of course, the night they're in town, she has to babysit her sister. What's a mare to do?

Cover art by the wonderful Snow Quill

Many thanks to Emotion Nexus, Sunlight Rays, The Bricklayer, and garatheauthor for prereading and editing!

Placed first in the Quills and Sofas Sparkler contest, with the prompt 'Backup Plan' or 'I've got this!'.

Rarity and Sunset Shimmer love each other. Really, they do. It's just not a good time for them to be in a relationship right now.

(2020-10-21) Featured on Equestria Daily!

Edited by garatheauthor.

Cover art by https://www.instagram.com/lia.cooke/

Sometimes life isn't a perfect story. Sometimes it's just one damn thing after another, right up until it ends.

As her mother lies dead in a still-living body, Twilight Glitter is going to have to come to terms with life—with death, with being, and with not.

CW: depictions of self-harm, and mental decay akin to schizophrenia/dementia

Originally written in 2017 (pre-s8) for the Writeoff. Completed slowly and painfully over the past three years. The prompt was Here at the End of all Things.

Thank you to r5h, garatheauthor, Mousse, and Cynewulf for pre-reading and editing.

Coverart by the amazingly talented Zaid Val'Roa.

In a world of extraordinary mares, Lady Rarity hunts for her next victim: a scientist by the name of Twilight Sparkle.

Inspired by The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Edited by garatheauthor.

Tempest Shadow has aged throughout her twenty years of service to the Princess of Friendship. Now, she sails the cold northern sea to investigate a pirate. Sadly, or maybe thankfully, scouring the ice makes for a tenuous boredom only the ship's sly helmsmare can remedy.

In a world of saints and sinners, Rarity fights for her soul as she confesses her sins to the local priestess.

Proofread by GaraTheAuthor.

Take a look into the Kaleidoscope.

No life, wind, or light. A total lack of sense of time. When a pony wakes up in the metal belly of a spaceship, only the sounds of cogs, wheels, and pumps accompany him. Lost in this sarcophagus of steel, all he wishes for are the reasons for his punishment.

Everypony in the 60s wants a piece of Califawnia's promised dreams. On her way to the shining lights of the Trot of Fame, Pinkie Pie picks up a hitchhiker.

Cozy Glow dreams within the stone—a dream so deep, so long, and so faint nopony knows about it. Except for Discord. Diving in secret past Morpheus’ jaws, Cozy is Discord’s stone to roll uphill.

Edited by the lovely GaraTheAuthor, proofread by the conscientious Pocketbot.
Credit for the picture goes to Bra1nEater over on Twitter.

Reviewed by Present Perfect on May 28th, 2020, here, by TCC56 on May 12th, 2021, here.

Featured from November 13th to 16th, 2019, and reached 2nd spot in the box. Thank you, readers!