The plan was simple. Set out on a tour of the most remote parts of Equestria, ones that had never heard of the Great and Powerful Trixie, for good or for ill. Spread some wonder, leave some memories, and get home without regrets.

(“Home.” What a strange concept…)

But it's like they always say: No plan survives contact with the audience.

A last minute entry (and second place!) in the May Pairings Contest. Rated Teen for references to alcohol and oblique discussion of suicide; no attempts of the latter are in the actual text.

Sometimes Dad can be gone for a while when he goes on one of his research trips. But sometimes he brings back something special. Today he brings back a strange statue of a pegasus frozen in fright.

Written for the 2022 May Pairings Contest.

Mr. and Mrs. Cake choose to commit a murder in their kitchen.

A feelgood story.

Winner of the Thousand Words Story Contest (Fluff category). Edited by King of Beggars, Mousse, and R5h.

Reading by TheLegendaryBillCipher.
Reading by The Mystery Fluttershy Fan.

Cover art by me! Heh, heh, heh.

Sunset Shimmer knows Equestrian religion is false. She has her doubts about human religions, too. As always, she turns to her friends for help.

Unfortunately for Sunset, her six friends have six rather different ideas about what lies above.

Fic updates daily until completion.

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Flurry Heart hosts a chess tournament for her hoof in marriage. Cozy Glow intends to win on her own terms.

Winner of the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting FlurryGlow contest.

Luna travels to the world of humans for a vacation, and encounters an old enemy from the time of myths.

An entry into the Crackship Contest.

Two months ago, the bandit Sunset Shimmer held up her first shipment wagon heading out from Rich Enterprises and made off with thousands in taxes and promissory notes taken from the western town of Ponyville. Since then she's hit three more wagons, and the CEO of Rich Enterprises wants the sheriff and her deputy to do something about it.

Unfortunately, the long arm of the law has a limp wrist.

Written off of an idea from Lord Camembert.

Sunset Shimmer, who is catastrophically out of Wallflower Blush's league, has come back to town for the summer. Sunset is very kind and attentive. She likes hugs. She keeps coming up with cute little inside jokes. She stares, piningly, when she thinks Wallflower isn't looking.

So, it would just be very easy for Wallflower to get the wrong impression.

Which is why she was happy when she stumbled across a way to know the objective truth about how she and Sunset measure up against one another.

A last-second entry in the Sunflower Shipping Contest.

A head full of romance is what many Canterlot ponies would call a frivolous waste of time. Everypony was meant to play by the rules of high society: keep your nose in the air, laugh at important ponies' jokes, and attend all of the right parties. Upper Crust and Jet Set had been diligent in raising their daughter Crystal Wishes to be a pony everypony would know, but she wanted more out of life than that. She hoped she would someday meet a handsome prince and fall in love, just like in the stories she wrote.

Crystal knew life wasn't as easy as a foal's tale, but that didn't stop her from dreaming. All of the wishes, hopes, and dreams inside her heart escaped into her precious notebook as she wrote about princesses in power and dashing knights. So long as nopony found out her secret, she could continue to play the part of a dutiful daughter while waiting for her own love story to begin.

A refined mare fresh out of high school and a dropout following her dreams find themselves forced to spend a lot of time together.

With the help of a meddling psychology tutor and their new classmates, can they find what they've been looking for?

French Translation!

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