I have lived my entire life among the ice at the top of the world with my pod. I knew little of the world outside of the ways of We of the Sea, and as a filly, that suited me just fine. But one day, the steel whales came, and on their backs, they carried creatures not unlike myself, yet wholly different. For while I swam in the sea, they walked on the land and flew through the air. Yet they reminded me of my kind, so curious, so tragic, and so infinitely precious. Where they did not understand, they sought to learn with a foolish stubbornness. Where they wandered far from home, they extended their hooves in friendship.

Where they waged their wars, they fought with a violent savagery that was frightening to me.

As I held a dear friend close, the breath fleeing from his body, I only wanted to know one thing.

Why?

Cover art and inspiration by JhonnyRebel. Pre-reading provided by djthomp.

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Russian translation of this story can be found here, courtesy of NovemberDragon!

Spike is a kind, loyal, selfless dragon. To many, he's not only Twilight's number one assistant, but rather an assistant to the entire town. Tragedy strikes when the adolescent succumbs to a fatal illness. It hits the townsfolk hard, especially Twilight Sparkle.

Sulking in her own despair, the faithful student asks herself the same, fruitless question: 'How does one cope with losing their only son?'

Sadness Porn at its smuttiest. You've been warned.

*Collab with Twilightclopple, first fic, enjoy:)*

"It's been three weeks. Three weeks, but it may as well have been three years, a lifetime, an eternity."

When her oldest and dearest friend falls ill, Twilight is forced to cope and reckon with the guilt and heartache that comes with the dwindling life of her favorite little dragon.

Twilight composes a letter to the Princess about a terrible Hearth's Warming gift.

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Princess Luna has a heartbreaking job: Granting the last wishes of every doomed pony before escorting them to heaven. Each of the ponies she helps has a unique story that deserves to be heard. This anthology holds the stories of the littlest wishers, the foals, the ones who should never have entered Luna’s care, but still needed her love nonetheless.

Rainbow Dash's morning was pretty much ruined.
She tripped getting out of bed and landed flat on her face, giving herself an aching muzzle.
She forgot to buy her favorite brand of hay flakes at the store yesterday and had to eat plain toast for breakfast.
She found out she had to pull double-duty today and tomorrow on the weather patrol.
Oh, and she found a nearly-dead foal, broken and bleeding at the edge of Ponyville.

The rest of her day became a whirlpool of stress and worry but the colt woke up, thank Celestia.
Something's not right, though. Nopony can find his parents, he's not in the registers, and there's an unsettling look in his eye...

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YouTube reading by Fire Hearth

Chinese Translation by forgivenlove

Russian Translation by Likantrop

TV Tropes page, if you're interested in that sort of thing.

Twilight is very excited to have perfected a new transformation spell. While trying it out on Cadance, however, an ill-timed sneeze turns everypony in the room into cats, including Princess Celestia.

Stuck in the form of a tiny (and adorable) kitten, without access to magic, Twilight has to find a way to fix everything, all while dealing with her growing feline instincts, the hazards of a pony-sized world, and a Princess Celestia who seems to have forgotten she ever was a pony.

This story was commissioned by DbzOrDie. It features cover and interior art by the talented Elbdot.

Nightmare Moon is gone. But so is Luna. Celestia is crushed. But a voice that comes softly in the night gives her everlasting peace. Wrote this for The New Christian Bronies Group.

All life must end one day, even if you're an element of harmony. Unless you've become an alicorn, a princess. And in that case, you have to see the lives of others go out slowly, while enduring immortality. Which is not easy, especially when you're the princess of friendship.

THIS IS A TRANSLATION OF A FRENCH WORK BY A FRENCH PERSON. I'm sorry if there's too many mistakes.

This fiction is a rewriting of two of my first one-shot (so, 2013 & 2014). The first chapter was my first MLP fiction ever, and one of my first real writing work. The sixth chapter was another one of my early one-shot.
Even though the style of it wasn't what I write anymore already at the time (doing sad for the sake of sad, meh), I still had an interest in trying to finish this concept, especialy for the last chapter. It took 5 years to complete and was finished in August 2018.

There are actually two translations in spanish for this story. This one and this one.

Writing playlist for this fic: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4NEmE5H4n7EGjmHDFKGVzPFkqb2jBp-D

Princess Twilight Sparkle has died a hero, but no one knows why.

Between an ancient evil that had not even existed until she struck it down, a mysterious crystal ball that bears some unknown significance, and a set of cryptic notes and behaviors from the princess during her final days, the circumstances behind it all are murky at best and suspect at worst.

And the rabbit hole only grows deeper from there.

The Crystal Ball Trilogy is a series of stories which deal with time travel, parallel universes, and other manipulations of time and space. Feedback is the first story; it is succeeded by Substitute and Divergence.

Digital pdf version here
Print book version here

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Live reading by Alchemystudent
Fan-art by Miss Hoot