King Sombra has been brought back to life once again—only this time, he doesn’t have his horn. Weak without it and withering away day by day, Sombra sets out for the Crystal Empire to find his missing piece, chaperoned by the downtrodden and endlessly kind Troubleshoes Clyde.

They’d better hurry. Twilight Sparkle has caught wind of Sombra’s return, and she’s getting awfully tired of destroying him.

Winner of the M/M Shipping Contest.
Cover Art by aquoquoo.

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Sea storms are a nasty but well-paid business: the business of Mobile Ops Pegasi Stormfighters. The small, pet-like "storms" cultured on mainland are nothing by comparison and hardly deserving of the name. Tempests on the ocean have no master. They're monstrous machines of pure untamed brutality. Only cruise-liners or larger naval vessels maintain teams large enough to actually waylay a storm of such scales, and even then each pegasus has the work of five.

Smaller ships with only a team of four, like The Bumbler, could at best hope to make the weather a little less deadly in anything stronger than a squall. By the mediocre standards of most inland ponies it would seem cruel to send two pegasi out in such conditions, but that's what they are paid to do. And the more dire the storm, the more necessary their job.

Cover Image graciously provided by MalineTourmaline.

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No matter what you see or through whose gaze you look, there will always be more than meets the eye.

Cover Image graciously provided by Kegisak.
[Dark]: "Serious" elements, but contains no gruesomeness.
Info on the story can be found here.

It’s a cold day in the Crystal Empire, but there’s warmth to be found in the Crystal Hearth Lounge.

Written for the June 18 2022 Quills and Sofa’s “Gay” contest.

In an unfortunate work accident, Calamus--a weather pegasus--has lost his hearing. His lifelong friend Syrinx volunteers to teach him Pegasus Sign Language, and in the process the two learn more about each other than either expected.

Special thanks to SunlightRays, Emotion Nexus, Nitro Indigo, and the lovely Holtinater for editing assistance, Mushroom for prereading, and the rest of the Quills and Sofa's server for help on all the little details.

Big Mac helps Braeburn bring better gardening to Appleloosa, and a spark of romance springs to life in the most unlikely places. We also learn a lot more about the Apple family in general. This was written for a fic contest, in a single weekend. It looks like I went over it afterwards to clean it up, but this is actually what went into the contest- no changes made after the fact.Thanks to the rigors of competition, we got ourselves some M/M romance right here in Appleloosa! (I consider Braeburn and Big Macintosh to be essentially unrelated, mind you- some ponies might not see 'em that way)

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Canterlot's Guard is by far the most disciplined outfit in Equestria. Or at least it seems that way. If so, is that discipline worth the cost? After the royal wedding, two guards watch over the empty altar and determine an answer for themselves.

This story is a sequel to Pneuma

Love can bury you.

This story is a companion piece to Flashgen's Pneuma and was submitted to the Quills and Sofas 'Expanding Universes Contest'.
It was based on a smaller version of the Flash's story which can be found here. Please read this smaller version before reading this story as this piece won't make sense out of context. And read Flash's expanded piece here on fimfic too!
Thank you to Rice for the amazing coverart!

Thorax and Pharynx are taking a hike outside the hive when they stumble across a shady intruder sulking somewhere in the field.

Pharynx vows to properly capture and contain this tyrant, no matter how burly and attractive he may be.

This story was a collaboration with eemoo1o. Feel free to check them out and read their stories, they really deserve more attention.

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Before becoming the Pillar of Strength, a young Rockhoof is separated from his lover, a unicorn hailing from the distant lands beyond Old Equestria. This is the story of their reunions throughout the years. Fated by circumstance to long for, but never regain, what they had lost in their youth.

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The first draft of the first section was an entry in the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting G is for Gay contest.

Thanks to and Graymane Shadow and TCC56 for prereading the second draft.