Weeks after Rarity undergoes a complete meltdown, Princess Luna suggests she join a club called the "Block Party."
It's not a very fun party.
Weeks after Rarity undergoes a complete meltdown, Princess Luna suggests she join a club called the "Block Party."
It's not a very fun party.
Starlight Glimmer awaits her punishment at the hooves of Twilight Sparkle and her friends.
Celestia has always been more interested in the future than the past. She does not dwell on mistakes – hers, or others'.
But sometimes memories lurk in the oddest of places, and when they strike not even a god can resist their gravity.
A short story written for the recent Writeoff competition.
The Long Patrol is an extension of the crown. It brings the rule of law and the princess's banner to the far reaches of the kingdom, the places where harmony fades and the wild chaos of nature still reigns.
In times past, all the tribes took part in the patrol. Today, it is mostly pegasi and a few gryphons. The distances they travel are simply too vast for anyone without wings.
Like most gryphons who join, I wanted to get away from my kind. I dreamed of the adventures I would have and the friends I would make. I certainly got those.
I just wish the price weren't so high.
[My entry for the EqD Summer "Outsider Insight" contest.]
Strange dreams are haunting the night in Ponyville.
The dreams are lucid and clear, indistinguishable from reality. And sometimes, when ponies wake up, the dreams don't go away.
Hallucinations stalk the waking world. Reality is bending in ways that Twilight Sparkle doesn't understand. But she intends to get to the bottom of this mystery and save Equestria from whatever is hiding in the dark.
Twilight Sparkle wonders, sometimes, if the pony in her dreams is the real her. If that is her soul laid bare.
She's about to find out.
Written for the Distant Shores Writeoff. Cover art by CosmicUnicorn, used with permission.
Twilight faces the thought of immortality with her usual aplomb: falling down into a ball of misery and confusion about her role, and what she will do in the eventual absence of her friends and family.
That is, until a much older Twilight Sparkle takes the time to talk to her.
Finalist and judge's top choice in Equestria Daily's 2012 Nightmare Night contest.
Fluttershy has been plagued by nightmares, and Twilight wants to help her get rid of them. But when the bookish mare begins to pry into the depths of Fluttershy's unraveling psyche, she finds more questions than answers. What do her dreams mean? Why won't they stop haunting her? And why does the creature she keeps seeing inside them seem like more than just a simple night terror?
The world spins, years pass, and everything comes to an end. Except Celestia. She sits on the shore of the last ocean, watching and waiting for her own chance at death. Because everything comes to an end if you wait long enough, and Celestia is patient indeed.