The worst part of a betrayal is often not the act itself, but everything that lingers after. Trying to piece together the motivations of someone you once trusted, sifting through memories for some sign you might have missed.

Wondering if, somehow, they had a good reason behind it all.

Seeking closure, Twilight tries to find answers in Cozy Glow's abandoned possessions, but the truth she discovers is one that will make her question everything.

Written for the 3rd Annual Cozy Glow Short Story Contest.

Prompts used:
-Twilight Sparkle gathers Cozy’s belongings for disposal. One object surprises her.
-Cozy’s got a secret!

On Hearth's Warming Day, Tartarus is not a fun place to be. Holiday joy does not permeate Equestria's most notorious prison. The same drudgery and boredom that plagues its inmates every other day of the year doesn't let up for Hearth's Warming.

Cozy Glow, one of Tartarus's occupants, expected the day to be spent plotting her escape and ascension to Equestria's throne with her 'friend' Lord Tirek. It's how every other day since her arrival has played out, so why not today?

Instead, a mysterious unicorn with a broken horn appears from nowhere. She's here to take Cozy Glow on holiday parole, for a 'proper' Hearth's Warming celebration.

But neither Cozy nor her custodian are what they seem.

Written for Deco for Jinglemas 2023.

Takes place between Seasons 8 and 9.

Featured on 12/29/2023.

It all went wrong. She was supposed to take over the world and rule as the Empress of Friendship. Instead, she was trapped in stone with her conspirators. However, Princess Twilight loves giving people more chances...

Maybe she shouldn't have.

Written for the Cozy Glow contest.

Cozy Glow was turned to stone, and Twilight thought it was time to free her. So she called Sunset Shimmer over from the human world, to hopefully be able to better understand Cozy and help her out.
Sunset was able to understand Cozy, on levels she never expected...

Written for the Cozy Glow contest, for the prompt "Cozy's got a secret."

The last few weeks have not been easy.

I'd finally been able to move out of the home I've been living in in the area i've been living in for pretty much my whole life.

The move, setting things up and adapting to my new home's differences and the new location had not been easy.

Still, I'd gladly take that stress over what I'm stuck with now. One moment I'm walking through the city to head back to the house and the next I'm Cozy Glow, hovering between a buffed up Tirek and mutated Chrysalis and it looks like the Rainboom Laser of Death is headed our way.

Oh, and, before we switched places, Cozy somehow became and Alicorn.

What the fuck is going on?!

Was inspired to write this after reading My Life As A Psychopathic Nine Year Old Filly and thought I'd give it a shot, as writing a character stuck as Cozy Glow and dealing with the aftermath of all her shit, especially the finale, would be funny

Featured 19/10/2019.

Wow. Honestly was not expecting that. Thank you, everyone. I will try to do my best to make this story worth that praise.

After almost a year of imprisonment, the cunning, manipulative and resourceful filly known as Cozy Glow makes a daring escape from Tartarus, albeit getting injured in the process. The Mane 6 and Starlight Glimmer are quickly assigned to aid and apprehend her.

But as Twilight and her friends search for her, they encounter key figures of Cozy Glow's past and soon discover that she wasn't always the evil filly everypony has come to know her as. This leaves them contemplating if whether or not there is still good in Cozy Glow.

A Cozy Glow Redemption Fic

(Takes Place After Season 8)

In future Equestria, justice has evolved since the time of the Royal Sisters and the Elements of Harmony. Interpretations of the law and customs have changed. Cozy Glow personally experiences one of these new customs.

Thanks as always to Pre-reader 63.546 for their expert and highly professional editing work.

Featured on EQD on 18 Jan 2022.
Now with an audio reading by The Mystery Fluttershy Fan!
Brief review by Loganberry!
Also recommended reading for EQD's Twilight Sparkle Day 2022

A Generation 5 origin story.

Princess Twilight Sparkle had transformed dramatically through the years since she moved to Ponyville, but one thing that never changed was her scholarly heart. It has always been a habit of hers, good or bad, that she never lets a question lie without doing her absolute best to answer it.

For weeks now, one such question in particular has gripped her mind in a strangle-hold, and refuses to leave the forefront of it. The princess of Equestria has finally had enough, and at long last is ready to mollify her mind's demands.

A one-shot containing but one of my many personal theories regarding the enigma of Cozy Glow.

Sequel to Only A Filly.

Cozy Glow, the filly scourge of Equestria, was snatched from her stone prison mere moments before her destruction. Twilight Velvet tried to recover the innocent filly hiding within the hardened shell of the brutal Cozy Glow, but Cozy Glow cannot change so easily. She's convinced that Twilight Velvet must be using some kind of mind magic to make her feel things that she thought she had repressed long ago.

Now Cozy Glow must contend with the dangers of the forest as well as the dangerous Princess of Friendship who still pursues them. But the most dangerous risk of all may be learning to trust another pony ... and Cozy Glow isn't sure she'll make it out alive.

Written for the Cozy Glow Short Story Contest #3, with the same prompt as before - "Cozy Makes an Unusual Friend."

Author's Note: Although this is a sequel, my intention is for it to function as a stand-alone story as well. There is a little bit of catch-up in the first chapter so we can be reminded of some of the events of of the first story, but keep in mind that Cozy Glow is an unreliable narrator! You may prefer to read Only A Filly before this story, but I hope you will enjoy it as a stand-alone as well. A lot of people asked for a sequel, and I really hope you all enjoy it!

Featured September 23-26, 2022

One second she was about to taste the sweet and delicious victory she's been yearning for since she was imprisoned.

"You're a pony yourself, aren't you? I'd be damned if you were the next one to bring my downfall, pony."

Instead, she's tasting the Castle floor as her mind began to fully understand the situation she was in. All decisive thoughts were thrown out the window. There was only anger and pain.