It's Princess Day! A happy day when little five year-old fillies and colts get to meet the Princess of Friendship and find out if they'll get their cutie mark extra-early.

Daylily can't wait to find out what happens to him.

Three days have passed since the Great Change. Ironically, King Thorax is about to be the last bug in the Hive to learn an important truth.

The secret is something obvious he overlooked in his zeal for sharing love. It bears consequences for the entire Hive... and hard facts about who Thorax truly is.

This story is a sequel to Smoothing the Knots

Princesses Celestia and Luna take tea under less than ideal circumstances: house arrest for psychiatric care following Luna's revelation about the her use of the Tantabus to torture herself.

Ever the thoughtful sister, Celestia tries to help Luna open up about her addiction to guilt and suffering in order to understand why Luna isn't happy now that the pain has finally left her. But Luna has a very different topic she wishes to discuss.

This is a collection of classic zen koans retold with Friendship is Magic characters.

Koans are small questions, poems, or stories used in Zen Buddhism to bring about enlightenment in the reader.

Rebooted April 2018. I'll remove this message once we're caught up again.

This is an anthology of my flash-fiction stories. Each story is exactly 150 words long. Some of them were written for the monthly Flashfic contest.

Each chapter is a one-shot story. Story context is provided before each story (e.g. story tags and origin).

Sassy Shrimp recently turned six, and it's his first day at school. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon intimidate the little runt, so Scootaloo steps in to defend him.

Sassy seems afraid of everypony except Scootaloo, but what makes her so special? Once Scootaloo figures out what Sassy's truly afraid of, she ends up in a tricky situation where one wrong move could scar the little guy for life.

Once again, it's up to the Cutie Mark Crusaders to save the day!

Written for the 2015 Secret Santa compilation as a gift for plumander.