Celestia reflects on her mistakes.

Written for jqnexx for Jinglemas 2022

Preread by The Sleepless Beholder, and Nailah

The magic of harmony was well known, as was the study of magical music, But the study of harmonious musical magic was a new field that had emerged of late. Equestria had been at peace for over a thousand years, and the latent harmony built up over the centuries. A by-product of such peace has started to affect the magic around them. The power of song and music was one such thing that baffled the magical community. It was with this that Twilight was determined to unlock its answers.

One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do.

After another blind date turns sour, Rarity comes home to find Spike’s moved on.

With all his times and attentions moved onto Gabby, the marshmallow unicorn is by her lonesome.

Octavia's dream came true when Vinyl said yes

She now has to accept the fact that dream was a lie

Will she ever find love again?

You stand at the water's edge. Feeling the waves sucking at your feet. You think of her. When do you not? With her wings and her spiral horn. Her crown and her kingdom. She is everything you aren’t.

Principal Celestia muses on what it must be like to be a princess.
TW for dark thoughts and a suicide attempt. Other than that it doesnt really need the T rating.

I wonder how I am going to feed Owlowiscious tonight? It will be quite hard to feed him without hooves. Maybe I can use my wings to grab the food, but it might be hard to do that if they are not on my body anymore. My ears hurt, and that constant ringing won’t come out of my ears, why is everything so numb?

Audio Version by Amethyst_Reads

Applejack loves Rainbow Dash. She does. Or...she did. Maybe sometimes love just isn't enough.

An exploration of what might happen a little further down the road in AJ and RD's relationship. Don't get me wrong, I'm a firm AppleDash shipper, but I do sometimes wonder how well they would work out. They would both certainly have a lot of learning and growing to do.

Written in September for the QnS poetry slam contest, with the prompt ‘a mans a man for a’ that’ by robert burns. Won joint first.

Once upon a time, Princess Celestia meant the world to her young protégée, Sunset Shimmer. In many ways, she was the world to the unicorn filly.

Now, the relationship between mentor and student has become deeply strained. Some weeks ago, the two suffered a major spat. As the rift between them grows and emotions churn inside Sunset, she begins to wonder exactly who she is in the eyes of the age-old alicorn who controls the sun.

And as Celestia prepares to leave for a diplomatic errand, she finds herself confronted by her volatile pupil -- and, put on the spot, must find a way to bridge the gap before it's too late.

Ignores the depiction of events in the comic The Fall of Sunset Shimmer. While the story works as a standalone prequel to canon G4 animated media, it is also canon with my ongoing longform story Together from Canterlot to Canterlot, as well as, separately, my alternate universe setting established by What My Destiny is Telling Me. (Despite the name, it is not directly related to my story Late-Night Conversations.)

Cover art by daOtterGuy, who pre-read the story along with The Sleepless Beholder. Special thanks to TCC56 (First Hoof Account) and Sledge115 (Sogno di Volare) for inspiring me to dabble in this period of Sunset's life.

Featured on 11/8/22-11/10/22! Re-edited 1/14/23. Now featured on Equestria Daily!

I wish I could say I was a brave pony.

_{vent from last april. strangely relevant again}