In the dead of night, a cloaked figure enters a witch's hut, desperate for a solution to an unsolvable problem. Hoping to help, the witch lays out five cards on the table, each one representing an important point in the figure's past. Maybe by exploring its past, the witch can save its fragile and shattered future.

Written for the Under The Suns writeoff!

Cover art done by Haze

Proofread done by Krickis

Prequel to Fat Stacks... of Books.

Little filly Sunset Shimmer needs something to occupy her time. She’s already read all her adoptive mother’s books, so a trip to the library is the logical solution. Unfortunately for everypony not a princess or the daughter of one, things quickly get out of hoof. The consequences of what follows means things will never be the same again!

These things are mostly books… Almost exclusively books.

Cover art created for this piece by the wonderful and talented Nova Quill!

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This story is a sequel to In Hindsight

(But you really don't need to read the first story!)

The good thing about dating Rarity is that you get to talk to her.

The bad thing about dating Rarity is that you have to talk to her.

Preread by MrNumbers, Void Chicken, Majin Syeekoh, and Melesse Lindenya.

I don't think you can know Rarity without being at least a little bit scared of her. If you're not, then you don't really know Rarity.

This is the story of how she saved Ponyville one day.

Winner of the Make Rarity Not Garbage Barcast Contest. Preread by Pearple Prose, ScarletWeather, and Estee (who did nothing but stand in the corner in silence while I ranted at them about this story, but by God did that help).

Too old to trick or treat this year, the girls decide to set up camp at Applejack's house for a special Halloween sleepover. Pinkie gets the bright idea to tell scary stories and everyone agrees. It's not like anything will happen.....Right?

Thanks to Merc The Jerk for the idea

According to popular myth, girls don't fart.

Yeah, we all know that's a load.

Sunset Shimmer, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity, and Fluttershy are having a slumber party, having a good time as friends, when the unexpected happens.

Someone farts and stinks up the whole room.

None of them will admit they did it. Each of them is blaming one of the others.

Can a fart destroy friendship?

They say she's the whitest unicorn that ever lived.

They say she carries a guitar case with her everywhere she goes.

They say if you cross her path, bad things will happen to you.

If you venture into the seedier parts of Old Mexicolt, you'll hear whispers and rumors in the shadows of dusty bars and dingy hotels.

Rumors about her...the one they call La Rariachi.

With a single post, just a handful of pictures from her phone, Anon-A-Miss managed to destroy months of effort to redeem herself. Even her actions at the Battle of the Bands seem to mean nothing in the face of this apparant treachery.

But when the Rainbooms confront Sunset, about her sudden betrayal and cast her out, she gives a response none of them had anticipated.

Celestia, the most noble of entities. Filled with love and compassion. Powerful, wise, immortal.

Lonely, sad, and wracked with guilt at her failures.

Come, reader, and learn the story of the magnificent Princess of the Day. Part of it, at least, for the story of an immortal must be without end. Only part of it, but enough to see who she is, and what she longs for.

Daring Do is the most daring, most dazzling, most butt-kicking adventurer in all Equestria.

Rainbow Dash is her biggest fan.

But A. K. Yearling, despite being Daring Do, is also a writer, and writers sometimes have to embellish to tell a compelling story.

Rainbow Dash is about to learn something that could test her love of her favorite action hero.