This weekend is Vinyl and Octavia's one year anniversary. They both want to make this the most memorable weekend together, so they spend the weekend just to themselves and they have no worries. All they know is that they have to just be there for each other. Come and read the romantic story of OctaScratch on the beach and the rest of their weekend.

Thanks to Dashie-Potter for the editing.

XCOM Record: Operation: Rising Star
11:52 am, 18th Febuary, 2016
Northwestern Territories, Canada.

Summary: Witness reports contact with extra-terrestrial creature. X-ray is unconcious and unresponsive. X-ray does not match description of previously observed species.

Response: Strike-One dispatched on high alert, orders are to recover X-ray alive. Alien Containment prepared for the new arrival.

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The war ended. They were beaten back, their mothership destroyed, their command structure in ruins. Lost ships and soldiers continued in vain, but thanks to XCOM, humanity won, and the world was saved. The Volunteer saw to that - everything changed because of one man.

And then suddenly, everything changed again. Only this time, it's not a man's doing - it's a mare's.

Proofreading by the aweome Setokaiva, entirely without me asking!
Tagged Dark and rated Teen: Gore, because there is going to be some blood shed by the end of this.

Celestia: a filly of twelve. A cynical, hungry pauper, with a young sister to protect and feed.

But the food has run out. Winter has gripped the land for too long, and now the pair face starvation.

The cynic in Celestia knows she can't move the sun. But the child in her wonders... and so she tries.

(Inspired by the Donovan song of the same name.)

(Now with a dramatic reading here, by Crafty Arts, and here, by KeyframeProductions.)

(Now with a Spanish translation here.)

This story is a sequel to Shadowbolts Adventures: A New Sunset

Spike was thrilled to be able to talk to Twilight, and she was thrilled to be able to talk to him. But when he meets a fellow canine who he just can't seem to relate to, he starts to wonder if he wasn't better off before being infused with Equestrian magic. Especially when that canine is a cute girl he would really like to get to know better.

R. Sweetie Belle leads a fulfilling life―her parents love her and she has several friends that she can count on when times get tough.

Like today, for instance, when she wakes up with a lump on her chassis.

Preread by Waterpear!

Edited by Bradel!

Sweetie Belle is leaving Ponyville. As Apple Bloom says goodbye to her, she thinks about everything they've been through together. Does she have what it takes to stop Sweetie going?

This story was inspired by the Foalcon group collab prompt Run, and also by the Snow Patrol song of the same name.

Do people think an "E" tag is appropriate for this story? I've tagged it "T" for now.

Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle preen Scootaloo after she gets her wings in a bit of a mess. (Rated T for a moderately sensual description of preening. The characters are slightly aged up, but not adult ponies yet.)

Cover image by newlunaticrepublic. This story was written for ScratchnTavi's preeny-weeny contest-wontest. (That's the official name of the contest, by the way.)

Featured Box, 11 Mar 2015!
I won third prize in a beauty contest!

Miscellaneous short stories about Octavia for Miss Spectrum.

Each chapter can be read as a standalone story. They will occasionally make reference to each other, but it shouldn't make much difference what order you read them in. (Except the Tavi and Lyra ones. Read them in order.)

If you enjoy this series of flash fiction stories, be sure to check out Parties, Preening, and PTSD, my longer Octavia x Vinyl Scratch story. (Contains some M-rated stuff.)

Based on Crusaders of the Lost Mark

With all that glowy-magic stuff going on, one might have thought that the Cutie Mark Crusaders were going to become alicorns.

Well they did – without even getting their cutie marks.

Principal Celestia has accidentally fallen through the mirror into Equestria, and it may be a bit before she can go home. Until then, she has to learn to cope with a strange world, in a strange body.

At the same time, Twilight has to figure out how she can help her new guest while keeping Equestria from freaking out over the presence of a second Celestia, and Sunset Shimmer has to figure out how she is going to make amends with those she had left behind in Equestria, while keeping an eye on her Principal.

Disclaimer: Since I wrote this description ages ago before I even knew the plot, the story is mostly pure comedy in the beginning, with eventual Sunlight and Chryslestia shipping!

Cover image by Arvaus, used with permission.