Twilight tries to invent birth control for parasprites.

Prereaders: Raugos.
(The prereading queue got unusually confused for this one, so if I'm leaving someone out, please just drop me a note with information that lets me find your preread feedback, thanks.)

Image credit: I cropped a portion of https://derpibooru.org/images/1874063, which is itself a crop of a screencap.

#custom-story-commission #commission

What if anypony could become an alicorn...whether they really wanted to or not?

What if they couldn't make the changes stop?

This story features Sunset Shimmer x Starlight Glimmer (shipping contest!), but not in the usual way.

Art credit: a cropped, smaller version of an image by spellboundcanvas, used by permission.

^{Thanks for suggesting Caneighdian placenames when they didn't know why I was asking should go to...oh, a lot of people, but I guess I don't even get to name some of them.}

Twilight has discovered one of history's darkest secrets. Nightmare Moon is real, and returning to conquer Equestria!

But Twilight has a plan. All Princess Celestia has to do is trust a complete stranger, and not panic if she's banished to the moon.

Prereaders: Short-Tale

Art Credits: Detail of a work by Biocrine, edited by adding vectors from Remul-LemLem, 90Sigma.

Maybe some ponies just weren't meant to be together...with each other, at least.

(another silly contest story)

Find out why "Human in Equestria," "Sci-Fi," and all G4 characters are banned from Omegathyst's "Hot Pony Summer" contest.

Stories about those things can COST PONY LIVES.

There are hundreds of kinds of fictional content which can cause gen5 ponies to suffer unnecessarily (as opposed to appropriately), and Omegathyst has helpfully listed and banned all of them in the rules for O's latest contest.

Also, to the best of my knowledge Omegathyst has a sense of humor. Let's find out exactly how true that really is!

As the pegasus leaps to his death, he thinks it's a special honor.

(Main inspirations: see the essential "Author's Note" at the end.)

Twilight tries to lose her virginity through time travel, and fails.

~(This~is~a~way~to~write~crossed~out~text~so~it~looks~different~even~if~you~download~a~story~as~a~plain~text~file.)~

_{August 6th Update/News: I guess it turns out this story will probably be an entry in "The Twilight Files Contest," if I don't write anything obviously more suitable in the next 40 or so hours.}

Spike the dog is dying. Sunset takes a desperate gamble to save him.

Flaws in the story are the fault of the author, not the fault of the prereaders: Cloud Ring, Anna-Flora, ninjadeadbeard

^{This story might be an entry in the "A Thousand Words Contest," but who really knows at this point? An author's entries are limited to a total of five, one story for each of the contest categories, and I've now written more than five eligible stories during the contest period.}

_{(#1000words 1000words 1000 words) (#portal-transformations portal-transformations)}

Finding out she and Applejack might be related was the worst day of Pinkie Pie's life.

What is it with these contests?

Dear ApplePie contest judges: You said you wanted an ApplePie story? Maybe even an authentic one? There's this MLP:FiM episode called "Pinkie Apple Pie."

Depending on how you look at it, maybe the episode is a little bit tragic...or maybe a whole lot.