Against your better judgement, you ended up having three little girls that you have to take care of all by yourself now.

As much trouble as they can be sometimes, you still wouldn't trade them for the world.

Sometimes a shortfic stands on its own, a longfic ends sooner than I expected, or I have something to showcase from a group collab. This anthology covers such things from my “early years” of 2015-2020. While a couple of these are unfinished, they've all received some level of feedback or polish. Quick descriptions, most recent first:

• Victory’s Lament - History is written by the victors, but the loss of one’s conscience makes the privilege bittersweet.
• Starlight fixes “Spice Up Your Life” with... Sniping! - Whoever said violence never solved anything clearly wasn’t creative with it. As we’ve established, however: Starlight is very creative. The restaurant business will never be the same.
• The Other-Other Mare - Spike’s youthful infatuation with Rarity often leaves her walking a fine line, as he truly is dear to her, if not always in the way he wishes. But Spike is growing up in all sorts of ways, and goodness knows Twilight doesn’t know how to talk to him about some things.
• Starlight fixes “The Gift of the Maud Pie” with... Attention to Detail! - Manehattan’s missing pouch shop proprietor was far from an innocent stallion. But so is Starlight, if you think about it. Sometimes it takes a villain to catch a villain...
• Rumbling Thunder - When brotherly love meets brotherly revenge, the only safe place is upwind.
• Starlight fixes “Applejack's ‘Day’ Off” with… Sabotage! (And Six Sigma! (And Bacon!)) - Barnyard bungee jumping takes a tasty, but temporally tenuous, turn.
• You Gotta Know When To Hold ’Em - The Pies are proud, upright adherents to an old-world tradition about how to live one’s life. Ironically, the forebear of their line was not.
• An Invasion is Born - Pony Joe has an exciting gift for his new special somepony. More than anything, he hopes she'll stop by and collect it.
• Lightening her Load - Applejack knows a thing or two about making a deposit on the side of the road. Good thing too, because it's going to be Rarity's first time.
• Starlight fixes “The Mane Attraction” with... HEAVY METAL! - Trixie's appreciation for everyday household goods takes an unexpected turn.
• Starlight fixes “Power Ponies” with… SWAT-ting! - Kids these days, with their modern ways of breaking up somepony else's good time...
• Starlight fixes “Rarity Takes Manehattan” with… Violence! - I mean, why spend ~22 minutes of airtime cleaning up after a jerk like Suri Polomare when you could just do this instead?
• Starlight fixes “Spike At Your Service” with… Admonishment! - Sometimes even a soon-to-be Princess of Friendship needs a (verbal) smack upside the head.
• Like Nopony Else - Maud Pie’s deep uniqueness can be both a blessing and a curse.
• Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken - Limestone Pie will never give up, no matter the odds.
• The Eye That Floats, Silent and Unblinking, in Petunia Paleo's Sandbox - The Doctor rushes to somepony's aid... but whose?
• Hell Awaits (original version) - An initial draft of what would become the actual prologue to To Serve In Hell, my long-running thriller set in the Season 5 finale's Nightmare-verse.
• Tequila Sunrise - Aliens place a trio of creatures in a setting that plays to each of their weaknesses.
• Snakes on a Train - Daring Do says the line. You know the one!
• Inescapable - Babs Seed has a really bad day.
• The Inevitable Clopfic - An author's editor offers advice. (Not actually clop.)
• The Seduction of Princess Cadance - A wisepony receives an offer he dares not refuse. (Also not clop.)

Cover art of my OC, Nutmeg, by Bluegrass Brooke! Featured on FimFiction 19Dec.2020!

On their six month anniversary, Twilight and Celestia were enjoying themselves when a power surge drew their attention to the Tree of Harmony. To their shock and horror, the second they arrived the tree began to glow so brightly they were forced to turn away. When they were able to see once more, there were two fillies asleep under the tree; both had wings and a horn. Not sure what else to do, Celestia lifted the fillies onto her back. Once she climbed the stairs, followed by Twilight, she was very glad they were on her back and not within the grasp of her magic. The Palace of the Royal Pony Sisters was gone and the Everfree Forest was bright, filled with the sounds of birds' singing.

Twilight and Celestia stared at each other in shock. It was apparent that they weren't in Equestria anymore.

Cover Art drawn by my twin bruddah Otto

Lovingly edited Chap 3+ by Jumbled

Cut off from her allowance by a certain parent of her's (Not her father, surprise surprise) Diamond Tiara decides to try her hoof at foalsitting to make some extra bits. A nice, easy job, right? Hmm...

Set in the middle of season six. You know, because she hasn't received much airtime recently, so let's try and make up for it, shall we?

This story is a sequel to Remnants of Equestria: SSTT

Applebloom Apple, Scootaloo Appelsina, Sweetie Alabast-Belle, and Diamond Tiara are some of the strongest, and youngest, Huntresses Atlas Academy has seen in years. But, if they want to be ready in time for the Vytal Festival Tournament, they're going to have to work together to overcome challenges from the past.

A RWBY crossover

This story is a sequel to Remnants of Equestria: SSTT

Not many can claim to have a relationship quite like the members of team SABR (Saber). Spike Sparkle, Ember Abagail, Zecora Brooks, and Sunburst Rivia have been placed together, for better or for worst. Nevertheless, the team aims to be the best there is.

And that can only be proven at the Vytal Festival.

Starlight Glimmer is repentant, on the path to reformation after she saw what her plan could have caused. She was thankfully talked down, all the possible futures she made prevented, all the changes to the past no longer existing.

At least... that's what everyone thinks. But magic isn't something to be abused.

There are always consequences.

This story is a sequel to Let It Snow

Hearth's Warming is a time to gather the ones you love, congregate around a decorated tree, and share in the magic that is a family's love. Join some of your favorite ponies as they learn exactly what familial love means.

-In 'Carol of the Belles,' witness Rarity and Sweetie Belle's first Hearth's Warming as mother and daughter... and all the emotions that come with it. (Takes place after 'Dear Sweetie Belle.')

-Watch Rainbow Dash take part in her very first Hearth's Warming with the Apple Family and discover that it truly is 'the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.' (Takes place after 'Let it Snow.')

-In 'My Grown Up Hearth's Warming Wish,' be there when Scootaloo makes one last wish to her parents before she reaches marehood. (Takes place after 'Morning Glory.')

-In 'I'll Be Home for Hearth's Warming,' Shining Armor seeks his younger sister's help in making sure he attends both of his son's very first holidays even though one is in Canterlot and the other is in the Crystal Empire. (Takes place after 'What's Done in the Dark.')

-And in 'No Place Like Home For the Holidays,' be there as Caramel spends Hearth's Warming with the Pie Family... who have no idea that he and Pinkie have already tied the knot. (Takes place after 'the King of Lies.')

Scootaloo had been content with her life. Sure, things got a little cold at night, and sure, she may not have gotten to eat as much as she would have liked, but she had the best friends a pony could ask for and the most awesome mare in Equestria as a sort-of sister. The only thing that could have made her life better was a cutie-mark to rub in stupid Diamond Tiara's big, fat face.
... Then her so-called friends had to ruin everything.
Why couldn't they have just stopped asking questions? They were all happy, weren't they? She had told them not to worry, so why did they? Now, because of them and all those other stupid ponies who never listened, she was stuck in the middle of the Everfree Forest with a mare who acts like dog with no idea of what to do.
And why did this mare keep looking at her like that? With such saddness and longing? Maybe... maybe Scootaloo could help her in return for helping her not get eaten. After all, even though fillies didn't need families, that didn't mean ponies didn't need each other, right?

A story (with an aspect of adventure despite what the site allows me to tag) about Scootaloo and the always overlooked Screw Loose, because there aren't enough (read: none) of those around here. On a side-note, we have a character tag for the likes of Noteworthy, a character with no outstanding features, but not one for a truly unique background pony like Screw Loose. What is wrong with the world? And still no royal guard tag! They may not be in this story, but come on! Don't they appear enough in the show to deserve at least that much recognition!
... Well, I hope you enjoy the story!
P.S.
The title will make more sense as the story progresses, I swear! Also Thanks to Bemmo for editing.

This story is a sequel to Memento Mori

Twilight learned a valuable lesson, long ago. Memento Mori: you too, will die. It was a bitter pill, but she accepted it and her boundless curiosity about the darkest of lores was for a while sated. But when she discovers a curious volume in the bottom of Ponyville library, hidden in the most unsuspecting of places (for after all, who would look in such a sleepy town?) she begins to feel a pull that she is not sure she wishes to resist.

(A sequel of sorts to Momento Mori, featured on EQD.)