A young Twilight finds out that Shining is enlisting. She tries her best to stop him.

Featured December 6th, 2020! Thank you all!

StraightToThePoint studio did a reading here!

My name is Octavia Melody.  I used to be a spy until being put out to pasture.  When that happens, one has nothing.  No cash, no credit, no job history.  You’re stuck in whatever rural hometown you have left.  You do whatever work comes your way and rely on anypony who still talks to you: a faithful but raunchy old friend, a freewheeling daredevil unlucky in love, and your mother too if you’re that desperate.  The bottom line is, as long as you are down and out, you aren’t going anywhere.

A crossover with Burn Notice.
In cooperation with Captain Unstoppable
Prereading by Jake the Army Guy

Celestia promotes her new top-of-the-line breakfast cereal.

“Don't sing me lullabies,/I won't close my eyes,/I can't close my eyes,/It's true,/I'm doomed,/'Til dawn,/Shines through.” -Alice Cooper, ‘Can’t Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me’

Scootaloo has been having some trouble sleeping lately. Despite what every pony else tells her, she knows that there are things that are lurking within the shadows in her room.

Cover art commissioned from TwistedSketch.

In the human world, Applejack’s parents are alive.

She has to meet them.

Written for the A Most Delightful Ponidox contest.

Your Twilight Sparkle ran into a problem and needs to restart. We’re just collecting some error info, and then we’ll restart for you. 

As Seen on Equestria Daily!

With special thanks to Georg for beta testing and debugging services.

Quality Control team:
Georg
Zen and Ponies

Chinese localization provided by Miracle_
Korean localization provided by Ad Hoc
Russian localization provided by GrandCat

Twilight has a secret. For the past few weeks she's been working on a romantic novel of the mature variety. As her magnum opus, Twilight plans for it to change the world of erotic fiction forever! Or at least it might do, if Twilight had the writing skills to back it up.

Rated T for Teen.

Forty years after the first Hearth's Warming and the founding of Equestria, a unicorn filly discovers a magical secret that will change the world.

But her sister worries that's not all that will change.

*Entry in Fanofmosteverything's Imposing Sovereigns II: Once and Future contest. For Coronation: Celestia
Edit: Won a Honorable Mention!

*Set in the distant past, but background details are helped by having seen S2E11- Hearth's Warming Eve, S3E13 - Magical Mystery Cure, and S8E07 - Horse Play

*Editing by ClanCrusher
*Cover done by Wolfmask

Highly Recommended - Presentperfect

*Cleverpun’s Review
*Featured on Seattle's Angels!
*Featured on Equestria Daily's 2020 Luna Day Fic list! 🌙
*Featured on Equestria Daily's 2021 Celestia Day Fic list!🌞
*Featured on Equestria Daily's Spotlight!

One thing ponies lack in Equestria is Taco Bells. With enough hard work from enough ponies, that can change.

Negotiations and raising capital are one way to get an official franchise. Alternately, there’s the Glen Bell method: learn how it’s done, then copy it. Get ponies into every level of production, from the tomato fields to the restaurants, find out who supplies the machines and buy their own.

Is it ethical? That’s a grey area, but it might be the only chance to save 7-Layer Burritos.

Now with a reading by StraightToThePointStudio!

Applejack is a growing filly - and young fillies need their space. That's why Bright Mac decided to build a treehouse in the back of the property for his daughter, so she and her friends could play with a little bit of privacy.

Fate says he won't be the one to finish it.

Special thanks to Noble Thought, who's Under A Tree in large part inspired this little piece.

Featured 9/10-11/2020!

And featured by Seattle's Angels, issue #177!

Also featured in Equestria Daily's 31 Great Fanfics to Read for Applejack Day on 10/20/2020!

Now with an audio reading by StraightToThePointStudio!