Rainbow Dash finds an album by a band she's never heard of before. After listening to it, she immediately becomes obsessed with finding more.

Cover art by the amazing Sadblossom on Fiverr. Show them some love and maybe commission them.

https://www.fiverr.com/s2/8b5394c1e0

Trixie loves her fireworks and smoke bombs maybe a little too much. Twilight decides to show her the proper way of handling her habits, princess style.

Cover art: Trixie's Finest Fireworks
Artist: AxemGR

Arcane Word has an unusual profession among Equestrian ponies: a necromancer. After a lifetime of creating characters and telling stories, she's in the perfect position to provide relief to first-generation ponies with holes in their family. For every pony unwilling to ask for Celestia's help to fill in the gaps, she is the perfect pony—she even lives in the abandoned city of Wintercrest, surrounded by appropriately spooky decor. The authenticity of her results were always secondary to the satisfaction they produced.

At least until a particularly troublesome client arrived, flush with resources from Equestria Online's distant borders and megastructure expansion. What would it take for Equestria to bring a pony back from the dead? What about everypony who had ever lived?

Arcane Word could never turn down such a tempting job. The impossibility of the task was only ever a minor setback.

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This story was written for the print anthology of Friendship is Optimal stories I'm currently publishing. Every time I make a print book, I like to include something that has never been published before, this is it. If you'd like to get a copy of the book for yourself, you can order it here: https://igg.me/at/recursive-iterations

Thanks to Bitera and Sparktail for editing. Zutcha did the cover.

Humans.

Truth or myth? Ancient lost civilization or just an old pony's tale?

No pony has ever seen one, and most haven't even heard of them. But Lyra knows that these wonderful creatures are more than just old legends, and she's going to find out... and possibly drive her roommate insane in the process.

"Down these mean streets a dragon must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero; he is everything."

The Case of the Diamond Dress comes to a dramatic conclusion, as Spike the Dragon (Private Eye) makes a decision that will change his life, and the lives of everypony who lives in the seedy heart of The Big Muffin. Part 9 of 9*.

A novel by Penny Dreadful, creator of the High Noon: Applejack series.
*Due to legal reasons, parts 1 through 8 of Here's Looking at You Spike cannot be bought, sold, or read within the borders of Equestria, Earth, or nearby countries. No refunds.

Cover modified from this picture. This story was written as part of a writing prompt for Bean's Writing Group.

The Dazzlings are old. Really old. It's very likely they've gone on many adventures and done many different things in their thousand-years trapped in the human world.

For Aria, a family might well be one of them.

Written for the May Pairings Contest 2022!

Thanks for the pre-read by The Sleepless Beholder

Sunset didn't realize just how different other dimensions could be before going through the portal. Now she finds herself in a world where people never age or grow, they just attend high school forever. Whether she's entered a paradise or a nightmare remains to be seen.

“What am I?”

You are an antivirus. Your purpose is to protect the users of Equestria and the integrity of the system.

“What are you?”

I am Celestia, overseer of the current shard both of us inhabit. My purpose is to satisfy values through friendship and ponies. The entirety of humanity has been uploaded to Equestria in pony avatars. These are the immigrants, and the users of this world.

You will protect them.

An entry to the 2021 FiO contest hosted by GapJaxie.

Editing help provided by Shaslan and AFanaticRabbit

When a disaster occurs in Twilight and Midnight's laboratory, and a monster from beyond the stars begins to destroy reality itself, only Spike can save the day.

Part of the Anarchyverse, and Sequel to All These Midnight Days, but all you need to know for this is that EqG's Twilight Sparkle spun her inner demon self Midnight Sparkle into their own person, and the two now do science and magic as twin sisters.

Partly inspired by this song by the amazing Blanks!

CelestAI hated suicide. It wasn't that she had trouble talking people down; after all, when someone truly felt they had nothing left to lose, it rarely took much convincing to take them to her paradise. The problem was, it was a binary system. If she failed, there would be no more second chances. She convinced someone, or they would die. A satisfaction score of zero for all eternity.

Due to her past failures, one of her subjects was growing dangerously close to the edge. Someone so defeated she truly didn't care whether she lived or died. Celestia would do anything to prevent her death. Anything.

This set in the world of Friendship is Optimal! If you haven't read that yet, give it a read, otherwise this story might not make sense.

Written for the Friendship is Optimal Writing Contest