This story is a sequel to Hospital Beds

After a tragic accident that was absolutely no one's fault, Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze and Sonata Dusk have found themselves immobilized and confined to their given hospital beds. What matters not is how they'll suffer the boredom that is a hospital room. Not this time. It is more so the insanity they'll endure because of one thing... sympathy!

Grand finale to the "Hospital Bed" trilogy because it's not like one was enough.

Rainbow Dash is used to doing dangerous things. Deadly stunts? That's just a normal workday. But illness is something worse. Something scarier. Something she can't control.

So even though the diagnosis turns out benign, her brush with mortality has still left Rainbow feeling...

Unfinished.

Time to take a look at her bucket list. But when a mare has already mastered the skies, what more is their to reach for?

The sun itself?

First place in a Quills and Sofas Speedwriting contest.
Pre-reading and Editing by ninjadeadbeard, as well as the contest participants Bachelor-ette, dziadek1990, Vis-a-Viscera, wishcometrue, PearlescenT, and The Hat Man.

RD's the strong one, the brave one, the one who never lets anything get her down. But one day, she sees another Apple Family Reunion, and something sticks inside her.

Elsewhere in Canterlot, a couple ponder what life would have been like if they hadn't given up their daughter.

In her longest and most thought-out and effort-filled setup yet, Rainbow Dash has the perfect prank set up for her friend Rarity. However, once the prank is in its execution, Rainbow Dash realizes perhaps the pony she was pranking wasn't Rarity just for one night, but herself for all these weeks of setup.

Story inspired by the coverart (MisterDavey on Tumblr/DeviantArt) and by Fyeten, my amazing pre-reader and editor. Give her a round of applause for being the only reason I'm a half-decent writer.

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.

This story is a sequel to Austraeoh

Bellesmith is a pony who must perform experiments in order to keep herself and her beloved safe.

Rainbow Dash continues to fly east.

Rainbow Dash has the best day ever, and Twilight's really happy for her.

Quills and Sofas Panic Fiction entry with the prompt Framed. Written with the challenge of imitating the writing style of my friend and as a gift to Seer. Cover art done by Snow Quill!

The Last Mare of Krypton, Applejack has repressed her powers and nature for as long as she could. She will not, cannot be someone else. Someone different. How can she be an apple when she's... Alien?

But the world has changed. An attack by tirek has left the the Mane 6 and Equestria reeling, and hope is a rare commodity. Applejack wants to hide and lament, but the hero inside her begs to come out.

But how will the world see her? Can she truly be an inspiration, or will they all fear her? Can Applejack be... Herself?

First in a series of stories about the Mane 6 becoming superheroes, Applejack will discover the Supermare inside her.

Applejack accidentally makes the best apple pie in existence (well, according to Rainbow, anyway). She just needs to know what it was she friggin' added in it.

“All plant seeds kind of look similar. They share many traits. You put them in the soil, water them, and provide sunlight. They grow, but they don’t always grow up to be the same. It could be just as well that when the seeds have sprouted, grown up to be six feet high, is when you realize that they’re completely different and share not even a single trait.” - Lesson from Celestia | Part 5

As Rainbow Dash prepared to return home from the Wonderbolts on winter leave, she expects to attend the gala and spend the rest of the winter season relaxing with her friends. Instead she receives an urgent telegram summoning her to Ponyville where she is greeted by an angry mob and a shadow of her past.

When it starts to threaten her friendships, Rainbow Dash realizes just how dangerous the situation is, and is forced to confront the ghosts of her past and the life she left behind. Lest the one she built for herself crumbles in her hooves.

We all have days we feel we can’t survive. Sometimes our dreams are crushed. Sometimes our friendships fall apart. Sometimes the ones we love betray us. Sometimes sickness overtakes us and we may even lose the ponies we love.

One thing that is guaranteed is that we all have our day in disdain.

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Quotes about the story:

"By the end of the first part, Cheerilee's blind in one eye, Dashie's had her nose broken among other wounds, and Twilight is paralyzed from the neck (or shoulders?) down. <.< And the plot just barrels ever onward" - Present Perfect