Lucid Storm imagines a world beyond death, where no pony will ever need to truly say goodbye to the ones they love. When all the magic and medicine of Equestria failed one young Sweetie Belle, he proposed a radical new technique--total brain recording, taken minutes before her death.

Years have passed since that day, years spent scrounging the funding for a body and experimenting with many failed machine intelligence models before tinkerer ponies all around equestria finally came together in the perfect synthesis.

After all this time, Sweetie Belle will finally have her second chance.

Written for Lucid on my Patreon. Edited by Two Bit and Sparktail, who also sponsored it. Cover by Magfen.

While a thunderstorm brews outside the Zephyr Heights palace walls, a teenage Zipp Storm reads her sister a bedtime story.

Featured on-site 10/6/2022 - 10/8/2022
Featured on EQD 10/24/2022
Live reading by StraightToThePointStudios

* Proofread by LevelDasher
* Cover art by ScribblePotato
* Inspired by scenes from TYT & MYM
* Takes place several years before the start of G5

Hitch Trailblazer, a strong figure in the town of Maretime Bay. He's arguably one of the biggest figures there and an instrumental part in keeping the balance! He's admired and he does quite a good job at his duties. But when a certain stallion catches a cold, a few ponies are gonna have to step up in order to make up for Hitch being out of the picture! ((Hitch x Pipp!))

Finally, it happened. Rainbow Dash finally got her Cutie Mark and performed a Sonic Rainboom. It could not be any more perfect. But... whatever happened to that cream colored filly she was defending?

A very simple one-shot as to what happened to Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy after they got their Cutie Marks.

Cup Cake knows what the pegasus mare is doing. She can see the way the filly is swaying her flawless body around Sugar Cube Corner. She can hear the flirty tones in the perfect voice as the mare sings her siren song to Carrot...

Alphabittle met an earth pony once. Eccentric, a fellow avid collector, and who had the insane dream of all races getting along.

He never thought that last thing would ever come true, less that it would happen thanks to his daughter.

Entry for Hot Pony Summer Contest

Proofread by Jarvy Jared

After Grand Pear disowned her at the wedding, Buttercup began to fear that unconditional love was now limited to her husband. Her worry was only expanding with the addition of expecting her first foal and an Apple Family Reunion coinciding around her due date. But when she received a letter from her long-estranged sister in Manehattan seeking to reconnect, she was surprised when Granny Smith encouraged her to invite Pear Blossom—now Orange Blossom—to the reunion.

That was when Buttercup realized that the Apples were the family that she always wanted... and never quite had.

Time passes, and the winds of change leave almost everything behind. Old structures fall apart, ancient history is lost to our books. There is only one constant in Equestria: Princess Twilight Sparkle and the other alicorns.

Gambit Hay seeks to explore Equestria's wildest forest, the Everfree Forest. For centuries, it has remained mostly a mystery, the inhabitants having a reputation for being wild beasts that attacked those who neared. However, as Equestria's foremost adventurer and researcher, he wants a challenge. While doing so, he sends letters back to his partner, hoping that if he never made it back, the work he did would at least be useful.

All's well and said until he finds a lone cottage on the edge of the forest.

Enclosed above is an artist's impression of the cottage in its prime.

Written for Bicyclette's The Twilight Files contest. See the other entries here!

Art is by Baron Engel, go check them out!

Sable Gale, an upcoming racer wins her first race in Cloudsdale. Rainbow Dash, impressed by her skills, asks her to join the Wonderbolt Academy. Sable refuses and Rainbow is dumbfounded. Words are said and start a chain of events that lead the young Sable Gale to better her life and learn a valuable lesson. And shows Rainbow that some ponies need a little boost to realize their dreams.

A story about hard decisions, forgiveness, and doing what's right for someone in need.

Warning, there will be lots of feels.

Cover Art by the most wonderful girlfriend ever to exist, MysticalCreations417

During a camping trip with the CMC, Rainbow Dash notices that Scootaloo is having trouble making S'mores. So, being the best big sister ever, Dash decides to teach Scootaloo how to get them just right.