Five years of cheap thrills in the big city have left Sweetie Belle in bad debt with dangerous ponies. Forced to pay up, she returns to Ponyville to seek money from an estranged sister she loathes with a passion.

Featured on Equestria Daily October 6, 2015
Non-spoiler review by Paul Asaran

Field Player is a traveling performer who specializes in audiovisual illusion. After a show in one of the friendliest towns he's been to, he decides to sample a little local flavor. One mare was especially dazzled by the show. Wooing her should be easy enough, right?

A much-expanded entrant in the July 2015 Writeoff Competition. Prompt: "Best Laid Plans."
Rated Teen for suggestive dialogue.

Pinkie Pie just won't stop clopping. It's getting on everypony's nerves.

But Twilight's got a plan. She's going to stop the clopping once and for all...

Definitely not the product of an April Fool's joke. Lookit. It's already over! That makes this totes serious.

Imagine my surprise when Moondancer told me that she'd discovered a way to access your fanfictions. A scholar like her should have been thrilled, but she said that she quickly became disillusioned. Most of your stories aren't that great.

Like the dummy I am, I offered to look them over, do some reviewing, commenting, and generally offer tips on how to improve. They can't be that bad, right?

Oh how naive I was! Yes, yes they can.

I had no idea about the sheer immensity of this task, and as if that wasn't bad enough, each and every one of your stories finds a new and unique way of being awful. I've just about reached my breaking point, and Celestia help me if I get there. I doubt that even Death herself could stand to read your fanfiction!

This was born from a severe lack of sleep while I was trying to write a review. It was out of place as a part of that work, so I removed it, revised it, and greatly expanded it until could stand on its own. The original version was only 432 words.

By the way, I'm using the collective, plural form of the pronouns 'you' and 'your' here. I'm not addressing the reader directly, but rather the fandom in general.

Jonagold Apple made his family swear on their hats that they wouldn't come to see him, not in the state he is in after the accident.

But Granny Smith isn't about to let her only son die alone in the hospital.

Pinkie Pie is awoken by a loud rumbling that shakes all of Sugar Cube Corner. The (albeit brief) mystery as to what or who is causing the rumbling combined with the bakery's short finances and a heavy work day force Pinkie to miss breakfast. There is hope, however in the form of a lunch/dinner engagement later that day with a colt. Hopefully a buffet.

What new idea will Pinkie Pie come up with to fix things? Will the Cake's finances get straightened out preventing Mrs. Cake from getting a headache? Will Mr. Cake continue to sleep on the floor? What is Rarity's special advice for Pinkie? Finally, and most importantly, will Pinkie finally get to eat something?

*Sex is tagged due to the fact that some of the dialog/scenes end up being potentially more risque not because there's full on fornication.

Spike would like to indulge in a little late-night storytelling. If he could just get a little bit of privacy, he might churn out his masterwork. A sharp quill, a bottle of ink, and a head full of ideas. If only that owl would mind his own business.

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Thanks to Uma for rough draft feedback.

It was dark.
So dark.
Why was it so dark?
And wet.
Very wet.
Why was it so wet?
It was cold.
Really cold.
Why was it so cold?
She didn't know.

POV of Pinkie Pie, in an Alternate Universe where she was sent back to the mirror pool by accident.

French translation available here thanks to the talents of Blaxbone!
Now has a reading by TheDizzyDan, and has another reading by Crafty Arts!

The nights worth of pancakes Twilight insisted on helping Pinkie Pie make.

They had to go somewhere right?

Fic Based off Pinkies Joke.- From Castle Sweet Castle.

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Made Popular on April 12, Thank you to all for reading!

Would you risk your life to save a stranger?

What if you could only save her for twenty minutes?

A Fallout: Equestria side-story.
On EQD May 30, 2014.
Reading by Illya Leonov (YouTube, mp3).
Russian translation by Psychoshy@ficbook.net and others.