Caramel and Big Mac get ready for Hearth's Warming dinner.

This story contains LGBT themes. Emphasis on the G.

Written for Apple Bottoms for Hearthswriting.

Prompt: Big Mac x Caramel, anything but sad endings! Sad middle okay!

Thanks to The Sleepless Beholder, Bicyclette, and The Red Parade for prereading.

Shining comes home to a surprise from Flash Sentry.

This story contains LGBT themes. Emphasis on the G.

Written for Apple Bottoms for Hearthswriting.

Prompt: M/M holiday sweetness (no sad please!)

Thanks to The Sleepless Beholder, Bicyclette, and The Red Parade for prereading.

Cadance tries to be the best mom in the world. She really does. But when she's summoned to Flurry's school after her young daughter gets in a fight with a classmate, she wonder just how good of a mom she's capable of being.

My technically-not-late entry into the Cadance Is a Terrible Mom contest.

This story is a sequel to No Room In This Hell

I've seen it happen before. Ponies get bit and come nighttime, they turn. 

I dunno if they're even really alive at that point, but I know they're strong as an angry bull. It's like they don't care about anypony else anymore, not even themselves. They bite. They've got these fangs and they bite like a rabid dog. 

I turn to look at Rainbow. They got her, too. But we were quick. We got rid of the wing they got 'er at. I think… I think that'll help. 

Originally written for Quills and Sofas Speedwriting’s Lyrical Contest, where we had 24 hours to write a story based on a lyric or lyrics of a song of our choosing. Thanks to everyone who preread (I swear I’ll list y’all later).

Good friendships can be hard to come by. Sunburst knows this very well, so upon receiving an invitation to spend some quality time with Starlight, he jumps on it without question. Being Flurry Heart’s Crystaller has been more stressful for him than he cares to admit, and it would be nice to be able to sit down with his old friend, and unwind.

However, Stygian, seeking a book in Twilight’s library, interrupts their quality time. To make matters worse, Starlight is soon called away by an emergency at the school, but assures the two that she’ll be back soon.

The only question is… now what?

A Sunburst X Stygian ship[tease]-fic

Often it is that two ponies will meet and discover an affinity for each other, deciding to spend more and more time together. Time brings familiarity, familiarity brings comfort, and comfort brings happiness.

Two such ponies are Stygian and Sunburst. Following Stygian’s return and subsequent reformation (in which Sunburst played a key role), the two found themselves drawn to one another. Long talks in the library, comparing Sunburst’s knowledge of historical events to Stygian’s memory of the same events, there was a little something that they seemed to enjoy about eachother. After one particularly awkward night, Stygian popped the question, one thing led to another, and now they’ve been officially dating for a good three months.

Today, they’ve gone out to a cafe together. Maybe later they’ll take a look in a used bookstore. Who can say what will happen, until it indeed happens?

A Sunbust X Stygian ship fic.

A mirror is available at Offprint: https://offprint.net/prose/SidemtuF0ETu5OXF8rgGm/two-nerds-walk-into-a-bookstore

Pre-read by the lovely Bicyclette

An Earth Pony Family Historian has moved on.

As is tradition, the Family sets a cider keg up on a table, inside a palatial tent, and somepony chimes the tip of a horseshoe off the rim of a crystal glass.

So are the branches of the Apple Family summoned to their duty.

Written for the EverFree Northwest Scribblefest 2018

Marble Pie has lived on the rock farm her whole life. Every morning, when she goes to fetch water from the well, she looks out at the horizon to watch the sun rise. One day, she begins to wonder what lies beyond that horizon...

Cover Art by ANTI1MOZG (used with permission!).
Edited by Knight Templar, GenerousGhibli, and E3gner.

Entered as part of the Everfree Northwest Scribblefest Contest (2016).