After her little magic trick at the Fall Formal, Sunset Shimmer is not having the best night, and it's about to get worse: Principal Celestia just found out that Sunset has been living in the school clock tower. Now she has nowhere to live, and who's going to take in a teenager with personal issues that include recent demonic possession? No one normal, obviously.

But... maybe someone with a mohawk, a house full of creepy masks, and blue eyes that seem to see more than words -- or rhymes-- can say.

Winner of the Writeoff Association's February WriteOff, "Look, I Can Explain."

Sunset Shimmer is homeless and living in an old abandoned warehouse with no power and a leaky roof with almost nothing to her name, not even her favorite jacket after it was destroyed during the Fall Formal. With the school closed down for the holiday and her so called friends too caught up in their own holiday plans they don't realize Sunset not only doesn't have any...but she has no place to get food with the school closed.

Going to a close by community center Christmas Eve to get a hot meal they were giving the homeless and those down on their luck, Sunset runs into the family of the last person she expected to see there...

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This fic was written for the A Thousand Words Contest II in the category Experimental. Check out the other entries here.

Huge thanks to The Sleepless Beholder for prereading the fic and to Punished Bean for the cover art!

After repelling the attack on Canterlot, the ponies were able to catch Chrysalis. For a very long time, her fate was discussed, until Pinkie Pie proposed a crazy solution: To turn the changeling queen into a child.

Despite the absurdity of such a decision, it was made and the newly minted filly was taken under the care of Princess Cadance, who is surprisingly very gentle to Chrysalis.

Just yesterday was Hearts and Hooves Day, and because of this, Cadance is just overflowing with love. It's good that she has a 'daughter' who is able to absorb all the extra love.

It's a normal day at CHS, right? So why is everyone ignoring Sunset Shimmer?

Cover image by Saberking2012

Made the Popular Stories section from 11/14/17 to 11/15/17 (#1 popular story at one point)

YouTube reading by FireRain. (Please note, reading was done prior to the rewrite.)

Check out the spinoff, Muted Wubs.

While exploring the decrepit remains of the Castle of Friendship, Sunny Starscout and her friends discover a strange book that might have belonged to Princess Twilight Sparkle herself. The book's contents resemble a series of letters that were apparently sent back and forth between Twilight and an unknown party.

At some point, Twilight stopped responding.

Remake of Defect

After all of the time she has devoted to this project, all of those sleepless nights to ensure that everything was perfect, tonight was finally the night. The night this was all leading up to. The night that Twilight Sparkle's greatest creation rose, and returned what the scientist once lost.

It just had to work. Everything was right. However... something went wrong, and now, with shattered remains condemning her one and only desire, there was nothing she could do to fix it. Not anymore.

Sunset Shimmer doesn't eat meat for some really obvious reasons. Rainbow Dash is extremely offended about this and tries to change that.

It... goes about as well as you might expect.

It's been years since Sunset has had a good Hearth's Warming. After the events of last year, she almost wants to skip the holiday entirely, but her friends think they can do something that might change her mind.