After reading a book by Spitfire's personal trainer, Rainbow Dash decides that the best way to get closer to her ultimate goal of joining the Wonderbolts is to add strength training to her practices by having one of her friends ride her. However, when she decides that Twilight Sparkle is just the mare for the job, the pegasus gets a bit more than she bargained for.

Artwork by Piggybank12. Used with permission. Thanks to DPV111 for assisting me with story planning.

An inspired linguist. An ancient stone tablet. And the story of how a new species, made in love and forged in fire, came to be.

1st Place in the Everfree Northwest Iron Author Competition 2022. Many thanks to the judges -- Aquaman, Grand Moff Pony, and Xepher -- for their kind comments, and to my fellow winners: FanOfMostEverything, Mica, Scampy, Steady Gaze, and Admiral Biscuit.

Editing by LevelDasher (who is now on a much-deserved editing sabbatical).

Cover Art by CadetRedShirt [DeviantArt] [Twitter]
(I commissioned this one. Give Cadet monies and she will make art and/or sing for you!)

Story notes in this week's MT File.

Featured on EQD, 10/23/22.

The Critter Concert Classic is coming up, and who better to organise it for Fluttershy than Twilight? But there's a big problem: a distinct lack of performers. Can Applejack ride to the rescue?

Gentle fluff.

Twilight's run out of ideas for new inventions, so she invents something to fix that.

No one said the machine would produce good ideas.

Preread by the lovely csos95, Majin Syeekoh, Arkadios, and ChudoJogurt!

As featured on Equestria Daily!

When a colt named "Bad Dude" storms into Celestia's personal study and declares himself as her latest arch enemy, the Princess can't help but nearly gush from the sight. As perhaps the cutest villain Celestia has ever encountered, she hurriedly calls for Luna to meet him as well.

But is there more to "Bad Dude" than his cute exterior would suggest?

No. No there is not.

Now with a youtube reading! HERE!

On the eve of being frozen in stone like her co-conspiritors in evil Tirek and Chrysalis, Cozy Glow gets an unexpected guest from her recent past who wants to plead her case. What follows is... surprising to say the least.

This story is a sequel to Vehicle...Allegedly

Tradition dictates that Pennsylvania towns ring in the new year by dropping things. Harrisburg has a strawberry, Lebanon drops a 100-pound bologna, Dillsburg drops a pickle, Cornwall has a cannonball, Mechanicsburg drops a wrench, while York and Lancaster drop roses (white and red, respectively).

Buck Motorsports Park is dropping a truck after a demolition derby and fireworks extravaganza? Okay, you’ve got my attention…

Anon comes from a universe that operates by kung fu movie physics and he's still able to function as such. Imagine every cheesy kung fu movie mixed into one story.

This was done as a collaboration between me, Bolding, Anonymous Assassin, Fugger, 8th Sin, and someone that didn't want to be named.

A mother reads her foal a story about the magic of friendship.
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A short story inspired by the music video for Scarborough Fair by Dan Avidan and the Super Guitar Bros

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A monster comes raging through Ponyville.

On any other day of the week, that might have been a major problem.

But it's Tuesday today, so it's not what Agent Sweetie Drops and her partner are worried about in the slightest.

A one-shot I had a sudden idea for.

If you want, suggest a plotline and I may write a sequel/prequel/AU with more chapters.