Short stories about ponies and the things that happen to them, or don't.

Helper: Spike finishes the last of a long series of days helping Rarity with her chores. [Romance] [Slice of Life]

Court Song: Lyra, the court musician of Canterlot Castle, is first-hoof witness to an unprecedented event. [Alternate Universe] [Dark-ish (maybe?)]

Cumuliform: Rainbow Dash stumbles into a sudden existential panic. Clouds. [Slice of Life]

A Quiet Cave: Rumble returns to a small, dark cave, intent on nursing a wounded friend back to health. [Sad] [Dark]

The Snow Is Falling: Derpy finds a familiar friend in the form of winter. The caress of the cold is bittesweet. [Tragedy] [Slice of Life] (This might technically count as a prose-poem).

Darkness In the Sky: A reflection on Luna and the spirit of her guilt. (Another prose-poem). [Dark]

Party: Years have gone by. Pinkie Pie throws a party. Written for the /fic/ mini-fic writeoff For Old Times Sake. [Dark]

The Ocean and the Clouds: On a cliff by the sea, Derpy reflects. Inspired by Dubliners. Written for the /fic/ mini-fic writeoff For Old Times Sake. [Sad]

Inspired by Cold in Gardez's Shorts.

For countless generations, the brave and awesome Dirt Ponies have battled against their Pegasus and Unicorn neighbors for control of their home planet... for very good reasons that nopony can ever seem to remember. They have nearly exhausted the resources of an entire world in their never ending mission to harvest sweet, sweet minerals, build a whole bunch of dudes, and blow up their enemies once and for all.

But while these three races are locked in petty battles, a far greater threat has begun to loom from the reaches of outer space... an even bigger conflict between three races, locked in a much cooler and slightly-less-petty battle! If the ponies want to take part in this epic struggle for the fate of the galaxy, they'll have to do the unthinkable: join forces, and simultaneously declare all-out war on both the glittery, enigmatic Crytoss and the horrifying 'Ling Swarm. At the same time.

Now all they have to do is invent spaceships. And not get blow'd up. This is a good plan!

Note: The story is complete, but chapters will be released every two days.

1. Trixie visits England, Briefly: A mispronounced word by a showmare lands her in rural England, during a traditional English sporting event.

2. Everypony is Drunk and Speaking Russian for some Reason: A gift to Rainbow from a foreign pegasus turns out to have an unanticipated side effect when consumed.

3. Fluttersaurus Rex: She just wants a hug.

4. The Tragic End of Maregellen: Never trust a globe that was a gift from Chancellor Puddinghead.

Reading by AShadowOfCygnus

A collection of unconnected scenes and short stories I've written that I didn't want to publish on their own for various reasons. Genre and character tags are listed at the top of each chapter.

They smell strongly of apples, but there's some other stuff in there too.

A collection of unrelated, very short, complete stories. These stories are generally cracked ideas, or things that just want out of my head, but don't really make for a full tale. Some are prompts from community threads, or things from my own prompt collab events. They are posted without editing by anybody else.

Some of them I feel are great stories. Some of them are terrible. All of them were fun to write.

23. A Good Life in Equestria - What if Equestria were in the Twilight Zone?
22. The Twilight Shall Last Forever - But Twilight Sparkle is less than happy about that.
21. Refrain - An all in ensemble performs once again for the end (and the beginning) of the world.
20. Hey baby - Sweetcake runs into trouble when trying to get Pinkie Flowers for Hearts N' Hooves.
19. Awkward - Ember learns why she shouldn't go out in public in her true form.
18. Bad News - Cadance worries about telling Shining that their life is about to change.
17. Craving - Fluttershy is no longer a fruit vampire...
16. The Party - Nightmare Pinkie still throws a pretty good bash.
15. Confetti - Party canon experiments can be dangerous things
14. Summer Thunder - Filly Pinkie Pie is afraid of thunderstorms.
13. Grubby Baby - Rarity finds a thing in the park. What will the mane 6 do about it?
12. Taco Tuesday - Sweetcake the changeling has never had a taco.
11. Pronk! - Pinkie Pie meets someone new!
10. On a Cardboard Shore - Luna's thoughts immediately after being banished to the moon.
9. Crayon Caper - Pinkie plus the CMC equals trouble, one way or another.
8. Ashes - Luna knows that sometimes all you can do is mourn.
7. Pinkamenacorn - Twilight should know better than to cast experimental spells on friends.
6. The Gathering - Pinkie Pie is a creature of the night.
5. It's all Been Done Before - Twilight tells Celestia her worries about the younger generation.
4. Alien - Twilight and Fluttershy discover a strange biped in the Everfree Forest...
3. Symphony - Young Twilight Sparkle attends her first concert.
2. Fetish - Sometimes ridiculous fantasies turn into reality. Other times they don't.
1. Alicorn Tears - Partings can be difficult, even for an immortal alicorn goddess.

Pieces and parts that didn't work out.

Like what you see? Stories available for adoption.

A random collection of Human in Equestria one-shots

The Line Forms in Back. Comedy, slightly Dark. What if everyone who wanted to go to Equestria did?

The Shortest HiE Story Ever. Random. Humans and magic might not mix well.

Ed Parker in Equestria. Comedy, slightly Sad. Ed Parker makes it to Equestria, but not past the manticore.

Captain J. T. Kirk Visits Equestria. Comedy.

Becky. Slice-of-Life Becky sees a unicorn at her bird-feeder.

Scaling Errors. Tragedy. A quantum traveler gets sent to Equestria, but things aren't quite what they seem

Scootaloo Finds a Truck... Random. The title pretty much says it all. Trigger warning: second person, cliches.

A random collection of prompt-driven one-shots. Each has been lovingly hand-crafted.
The subjects are as diverse and colorful as the ponies which they describe.

New stories will be added now and then, so be sure to check back frequently.

North of Canterlot, in the far marches of Equestria near the border with the Griffon tribes, there is a mountain that flies.

West of Canterlot, beyond the Galloping Mountains and a desert painted in the pastel hues of a faded rainbow, a tower sits at the edge of the world.

South of Canterlot, past the Everfree forest and the desolate badlands, a city of gardens waits to be born.

The Lost Cities Challenge! Awesome authors who have taken it upon themselves to explore other abandoned places:

- The Land of Glass and Stone, by RazgrizS57
- The City that Breathes, by Pearple Prose
- Aletheia, by Foehn
- Far Kobresia, by Baal Bunny
- Keskiyönnon, by Bradel
- Unknown Architecture, by Not_A_Hat
- The Gentle People, by Bad Horse
- The Seal of Wax and Glass, by DuncanR

Dramatic Reading by Illya Leonov: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4.

Royal Canterlot Library interview for Lost Cities.

A few years after Twilight and Celestia's marriage, they begin to worry that their obligations to the job are interfering with their obligations to each other. So they decide to take a break. A few spells and perfectly legal papers later, and they are ready to start their lives as Sunny Skies and Dusky Sparks, just your average, everyday, married couple living and working in a suburb of Manehatten.

(Non chronological story, with many chapters based on prompts for the Twilestia Group Collab.)

Rated T for Tantalizing.