The Apple sisters fall down a well and can't get out.
They argue about what truly matters in life
as rain falls and the water slowly rises around them.

Featured on Equestria Daily August 7, 2014
Audio reading by Crafty Arts

Griffons are known for being proud---so when the patriarch of a long griffon line is rendered helpless, he has to break down the walls he's erected between him and his only living relative.

WARNINGS for mentions of severe medical issues.

It's cold up north, but Reinbow Deer gets by. Mostly by looking after the littler members of the herd. But what's a deer to do when one fawn barges in babbling about some dark blue dream alicorn and a message that needs delivered?

No AU tag because.... of certain spoilers for the Gen 5 movie.

Now with a written review!

This is an entry in the Snippet Series, an anthology of old oneshots that I (and my good buddy Str8aura) wrote based around interesting pics I found. New ones will be posted every other Thursday for the foreseeable future.

You'd think that being trapped in stone would mean that, if nothing else, I could get some peace and quiet. Unfortunately, it seems that Celestia has other ideas.

She has appointed these ponies... these 'Keepers', as she calls them, to keep me entertained during my incarceration.

Honestly? I'd prefer the boredom.

Cover art by matrosha123
Spanish Translation by SPANIARD KIWI found here

Granny Smith and Grandpa Gruff haggle over apples.

We all know the story. The Storm King attacked Mount Aris looking for the Pearl of Transformation, forcing the Hippogriffs to transform into Sea Ponies and flee underwater, leading to the formation of Seaquestria. Eventually after a visit from the Elements Skystar becomes the first of her kind to return to the surface.

But what if instead Silverstream snuck up to the surface on a regular basis. What if during these trips to the surface she met Gallus, who fled from Griffinstone.

Cross, an ice dragon who was sent by his adopted mother, Queen Juniper of the new kingdom of ice dragons, to go to the School of Friendship to learn more about friendship and make more friends.

It's a new semester at the School of Friendship. Things take an interesting turn when some new students join the school. New students doesn't sound so bad, until everypony finds out that the new students have come from the Crown Tundra. The School of Friendship's students will be dealing with some new creatures who are a lot more different than the Young Six.