Cousin Braeburn, has always been a loud mouth, and always winning the annual Thanksgiving Grudgematch hasn't helped his ego. Big Macintosh aims to take his cousin down a peg with help from Applebloom, in her first annual Apple family grudgematch.

What does it mean to be a big brother? Shining Armor wonders this as he awaits his new baby sister.

Luna finds out about Pip's life, and decides to adopt him. This leads to her going to Ponyville much more often, and seeing more familiar faces. Feelings that she can't explain begins to develop in her.

Celestia returns to the Castle and talks to a guardsmare after spending some meaningful bonding time with her sister. But, as the guardspony soon learns, the word “bonding” has an entirely different meaning when dealing with Alicorns…

Critique appreciated.

Description thanks to Disciple.

EDIT 2022: Someone did a reading. I got nervous about the best way to word a blog post and/or put it in the long description. Doing so now.
https://youtu.be/FIC80tiSZMo

A young Equestrian Guard recruit is ordered to attend - of all things - the retirement party of a complete stranger.

However, things at the party turn out to be not quite what he expected. As the night progresses, he learns some valuable lessons about himself and just what the duties of being a Guardspony in Her Eternal Princesses' Royal Guards entails.

(A slightly humorous yet slightly bittersweet look at the life and traditions of the Royal Guard)

February Write-Off Third Place Winner! It's just a normal day in Ponyville when Pinkie's Pinkie sense alerts her to an impending Mary Sue fanfiction. Things take a horrifying turn for the worst when Ponyville is invaded by not only not only one of the obnoxious characters but two! Now the very fabric of reality is in danger as the two OC ponies fight for dominance and only Pinkie can save the integrity of the fourth wall. We're doomed.

(Had to be shortened to from 10.3k to fit the contest parameters. If this becomes popular enough I might post the full version after the contest. Is actually only about 9.6k words on my computer so I'm not sure why it's so much higher here.)

A sort of experiment with existentialism and stream of conscious narrative.

Pokey Pierce finds himself inexplicably stranded in a vast and undending desert. How will he cope with the trials that he faces? A bit of PokeyPie sprinkled in.

The story of Pierce's life. From schoolyard troubles to the shadowy underworld of party-crashing, and filled with the ponies who shaped his life, for good and for ill.

*****

Originally written February through April of 2011.

Now available in Spanish, courtesy of SPANIARD KIWI.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. It teaches so many life lessons. In this one, Twilight and her friends learn a difficult lesson about partying too hard, and the price that comes with it.

Stay thirsty, my Bronies.

(Set prior to the Season 3 finale)

Cover image by Toodles3702 ( http://toodles3702.deviantart.com/ ).

Spanish translation by SPANIARD KIWI - https://www.deviantart.com/spaniard-kiwi/art/Una-noche-para-intentar-recordar-970255692
Russian translation by zmeyk - https://ponyfiction.org/story/6209/
Reading by Promissa Fidel

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and its characters are owned by Lauren Faust and Hasbro.