This story is a sequel to The Painless Murders

The graveside is a place of deep reflection. On friends who will never forget. On lives touched, even saved, and forever changed. On a legacy that will carry into future generations.

Featured Jul 26-27, 2023.

Written for Bicyclette's A Thousand Words Contest II 2023.

This story is part of the Dark Steel series and makes use of characters found in those stories. Being familiar with them is helpful, but not required.

Thanks to OConnerGT-R for pre-reading, Airy Words for proofreading.

Cover art photo by Katharine Sparrow, licensed for free use from https://www.stockvault.net/

Being a detective on the Canterlot Police Force was exactly where I was meant to be. When that was taken away from me, I started down a path that was not likely to end well. Then I found a unicorn filly lost on a rainy night. I was less than enthusiastic, but I couldn’t just leave her. The search for who she belonged to sent us down a path more dangerous than I would have thought possible. The destination would change the course of both of our lives.

This is another in the spin-off series from The Quicksilver Chronicles featuring the private investigator Dark Steel.

Featured on 1/21/22 and 1/25/22.

Cover art by Calena.

Thanks to my pre-readers OConnerGT-R, Airy Words, With a special thanks to my editor EverfreePony.

This story is a sequel to Dark Steel

My job as a private investigator wasn’t particularly glamorous. In fact, some would go so far as to call it monotonous. Still, being able to help ponies in ways the cops couldn’t, or wouldn’t, was fulfilling. Then a former client and friend was arrested for murder. If the police aren’t going to do a serious investigation, then I have to. And I need to solve it before anypony else dies.

This is another in the spin-off series from The Quicksilver Chronicles featuring the private investigator Dark Steel.

Cover art by Calena.

Thanks to my pre-readers OConnerGT-R, M00NFIRE, Bride of Sombra. With a special thanks to my editor EverfreePony.

This story is a sequel to Little Filly Lost

Stunningly beautiful, high class, and extremely wealthy, Jasmine Chapeau was nothing like my typical clients. Only then I went and botched the job, lost the client, and almost died. I’ve never failed a client before. And by Celestia, I’m not starting now.

Chapter one was written for Bicyclette's A Thousand Words contest in 2022. The feedback was clear: a cliffhanger ending just wouldn’t do. So now we have the rest of the story.

Thanks to OConnerGT-R for pre-reading, Airy Words for proofreading, and PopMediaVagabond for editing.

Cover art by: •rae•#0800 (discord), @raeano06 (Instagram).

This story is a sequel to La Femme Fatale

My business is Discrete Discovery Private Investigators. Investigators. Plural. With me as the owner and sole employee. I laughed at the irony. Yes, I enjoy the work, but it’s been slow. Most of the cases I see are pretty mundane. Some are actually interesting. Every so often I’m asked to do the impossible. That’s just happened, and I’m forced to consider if being slow isn’t such a bad thing after all.

This story is part of The Quicksilver Chronicles, a series of stories that follow the adventures of Quicksilver and Misty as they make their way through whatever fate throws at them. This is a spin-off, telling Dark Steel’s story from Chapter 3 of “One of Us”. That story contains background and content not duplicated in this story.

Cover art by MagnusMagnum.

Thanks to my pre-readers OConnerGT-R, mikemeiers, and FionaF. With a special thanks to my editor EverfreePony.