In the back of the white marble archives, behind a rusted door, paint peeling and centipedes crawling under the frame, there's a set of stairs. They buckle like cork, and descend into a lightless library coated in dust, pages, and runes. Here, Twilight Sparkle stumbles upon a perfectly preserved body. Her own body.

Created for EqD's Nightmare Night Fanfiction Contest ~ 3rd Place Editor's Choice

Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle get worried when Scootaloo doesn't show up for their planned day of crusading for cutie marks. Naturally they go to Scootaloo's hometown to check on their friend. But the fillies may for once have bitten off more than they can chew.

(This fanfic was written as an entry for EqD's 2012 Nightmare Night Fanfiction contest)

Home.

It's a place we all miss at some point in our lives, but what does it feel like to be banished from it, then to have any chances of returning to it completely striped away from you? All because your magic wasn't acceptable. For the Dazzlings, this is something they think about constantly, ever since the Battle of the Bands.

Sonata has nightmares every night. She has the same reoccurring dream every time. But a person can only handle so much. Sonata can't take it anymore. She wants to end it all, she can't take the pain anymore. It's not like there was anyone who cared for her, anyways.

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Their defeat by the Rainbooms might seem straightforward to everyone else involved, but to Aria it means a whole lot more. And with nothing to lose anymore, Aria believes it's finally time she told Adagio all the things she's wanted to say since the beginning.

Written for this: http://www.fimfiction.net/group/50/the-writers-group/thread/246618/writing-challenge

Starlight, in a moment's notice, ripped up the only thing that could prevent any irreparable damage from ruining the timeline and by extension, Equestria.

And she did it in a time where she was too emotionally wrecked to reflect. However, she ends up having some time to think about what she had done. And soon, regret sets in.

Trigger Warning: Self-Harm, possibly bordering on (attempted) suicide

Fluttershy remembers every world that Starlight created, and that is why she can never forgive her.

"At the end of the game, the King and the Pawn go back into the same box."

In the land of Equestria, there are no differences, no heartache, no progress, no purpose. There is just life, and whatever comes after. Everypony is equal. Starlight Glimmer won, but she may have also lost.

She built the box, but the game is about to end.

Entry for EquestriaDaily's Writer's Training Grounds.

I saw the signs. I saw the proof. I should have acted, swallowed my pride, told Celestia it was all my fault. But I was scared. Scared for my title, my freedom. If I wasn't so selfish, Fluttershy would be here with us. But she's not. I stare at the blood sucking creature with her face, and yet not her face. What monster have I allowed to flourish? I feel guilt. I have cost countless ponies lives. Fluttershy included. I have no voice, but I must scream. No one knows I am responsible, but I keep hearing the same sentence over and over again.
Why did you keep hush, Twilight Sparkle?
And to be honest, I don't know.

Opal is disturbing Rarity's sleep. She tries to ignore it.