Pinkie's trying to solve a murder, but other things keep distracting her. Like Rarity. And the missing corpse. And Rarity.

Winner of the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting Group's Utterly Normal Contest #1: Watching Bread Rise contest with the prompt "Killing Time."

A special thanks to The Drider Pony, The Legendary Bill Cipher, Zontan, and Lofty Withers for editing, prereading, and delightful commentary.

Featured on 2/25/2020 (albeit briefly). Thank you so much!
Received a reading from RainbowInfinity HERE! Thanks so much.

On this 400^th anniversary of the Crimson Week, the Canterlot Archives is proud to present Poet Laureate Songbird’s most famous work. Written for Princess Celestia over the summer of 617 during her melancholic “Rump Regency,” it details the origins of that horrible week and was an attempt in Songbird’s own words “to be a balm on the wounds that continue to plague us today.”

Please enjoy this all-time classic from the Darkened Sun era of Equestria's literary canon.

Applejack gives her son a tour of Sweet Apple Acres, and thinks about the kind of pony he'll grow up to be.

This story was written for the second A Thousand Words Contest.

The cover art is by Graphene. This story was read aloud by Lotus Moon for Mother's Day of 2024 here.

Rainbow Dash buys an umbrella on a rainy day, and everypony wants to know why.

Cover Art is by HitBass, which inspired this story.

Written for the Thousand Word Contest II, under the Slice of Life category!

Huge thanks to ScarredVirtue for pre-reading once again!

Now with an awesome audio-reading by StraightToThePointStudio!
Another amazing audio-reading by TheLegendaryBillCipher (Rainbow Infinity Readings)!

Rainbow Dash flies east.

BOOK 1

How is one to react to one's world being changed? How should one react to losing what one holds dear? How do we cope? How do we move on?

Maybe we don't. Maybe we are meant to stay in our grief, and mourn for what was, and what never will be. Maybe we aren't meant to rise up, but to fall down.

What do we do? We stop. We don't try. We don't think. We grieve. We mourn. We break. We apologize. We cry.

We are so sorry...

Yet we have no control.

For best effect, listen to this while reading. If it stops while you are still reading, play it again. It really helps add to the emotions.

This is the first installment of my Heaven's Tears series.

Applejack travels alone down an old, dusty, well traveled road. The end of her long journey is near. Soon, she will finally be able to lie down and rest with her friends and family. She only needs to climb one final hill, so long as she can find the strength to reach its top.

But she just feels so tired.

Applejack takes a train ride to see her parents.

"She called me ugly, an ugly pony who lives in a mucky old farm! She called mah bow 'horrid' an' mah mane 'yucky,' an'...an' is she right, Applejack? Am Ah...ugly?"

Applejack teaches her sister a little something about beauty.

(Credit to cover is Togekisspika35)

This story is a sequel to Fluttershy's Whispers

Pinkie Pie is unlike any other pony in Ponyville. Hyper, energetic, funny, bubbly, and cute, she got your attention from the instant you arrived. And the more you paid attention, the more you noticed about her.

One day, your feelings reach a breaking point. You have to tell her. And at Sugarcube corner, Pinkie Pie's life--and yours--will be changed forever.