Rainbow Dash has gained a mastery over her body, thanks to a lifetime of training. When she becomes pregnant and her body no longer obeys her as it once did, she struggles to deal with that. She's gaining weight in places she doesn't like, and finding issues with acts she once found simple, but has no choice except to see it through. She knew having a foal would forever change her life, but she wasn't expecting it like this.

This story is a $75 commission for Explodium, whose payment more than paid for the cover art by CowsRTasty.

Fluttershy decides to surrogate for a couple, but doesn’t want any extra attention from anypony, and so she simply doesn’t tell anypony else.

This story was written for the New Blood contest. The prompt was “A Secret Life” and this story aims for the fourth bonus. I was compelled to take that prompt as literally as possible.

I submitted this story in the final hours of the contest; it was quite difficult to finish, this being my third or fourth attempt at finishing a story for it, and I had fun.

The cover art is by SNSPony.

Applejack gives her son a tour of Sweet Apple Acres, and thinks about the kind of pony he'll grow up to be.

This story was written for the second A Thousand Words Contest.

The cover art is by Graphene.

Nightmare Moon has been banished to the moon and, unable to escape its hold, must wait out her exile. After months of loneliness, she realizes she truly hadn't been alone at all, but that poses its own problems.

Happy Nightmare Night. The cover art is by Patch.