It's usually boring work, maintaining an Equestrian border crossing. Doubly so if you're stationed at the Badlands crossing, with no incoming and a general populace still too busy licking its wounds to try anything funny. But it pays well, so guards tend not to complain.

But then you get the occasional day where everything goes wrong. Where an errant changeling with an attitude and an extremely punchable face tries to waltz past the station with a cart full of contraband, and sticky gross contraband at that.

If the border guard can get out of this one with all of their brain cells, they're definitely applying for a transfer to Ponyville.

Written as a birthday present for Carapace

Now forgiven for her past transgressions, life is going better than Sunset could have possibly dreamt of. With her best friends by her side, she's burning brighter than ever.

What she didn't realize is how that same flame could spark up and hurt others, in a manner she thought she had long since buried away.

Cheerilee was asked by Princess Celestia to travel to Saddle Arabia for a teacher-exchange program. Sounds like the offer of a lifetime for a small town teacher, right? Too bad her escort, an Equestrian diplomat, is the worst travel buddy ever. Hopefully our favorite cheerful teacher will survive the trip...

Lotus is a professional masseuse. She sees the pony below the skin, and tends to coax just as much out of their mouths as their muscles. Late one day, she gives three very different massages to three close friends, all of whom mention a name she isn't familiar with: Applejack.

Featured by The Royal Canterlot Library and Equestria Daily

The original version of the story took 5th place in The Writeoff Association's February 2015 contest, "Closing Time"

Spike is frustrated with the fact that his life is pretty much ideal, and yet he still can't get whatever he wants, when he wants it, whether what he wants wants it or not. So he runs away because, just like every fanboy, he knows that's the only way to grow bipedal and cool.

This story is a sequel to Seven Girls, Nine Hundred Forty Three Miles, and One Minivan.

In a former life, Vice-Principal Luna took the world by storm as the heavy metal queen known as Nightmare Moon!

But what will happen when Rainbow Dash discovers her long-held secret?

(More hijinks in the Equestria Girls sandbox, if you haven't noticed).

Twilight finds a hidden book in the Royal Canterlot Library, though she might not like what it tells her.

Twilight looks deeper into a certain prophecy, and finds an answer much stranger than she expected.

What are these mysterious 'stars'? Who wrote the prophecy? And why the heck does everything seem to run in cycles of a thousand years, anyway?

One-shot.

This is the story of a little dragon and how he had to give up his baby pet Phoenix.

A story commissioned by Jake the Army Guy

Twilight and the gang had just defeated Sunset Shimmer and had their best Fall Formal Dance ever. A month later, stories of Rainbow Dash winning against Twilight Sparkle in a soccer match began to spread. There was one thing she didn't like about the rumor; Twilight scored once against her despite being a beginner and her being the captain of all sports team.

It was then Rainbow Dash decided to find who spread the rumor and make them clear the misunderstanding the school had. Can she find the one responsible?

Want more shorts on EQG? Check out my the other Equestria Girls one shots!