It's inconvenient to have repeating nightmares. So is having your magic stripped away, only to come back as a terrifying paranormal affinity. Meet Twilight Sparkle, who can now see all the ghosts and ghouls of the Equestrian world. A week has passed since she and her friends defeated Nightmare Moon, leaving her to contemplate her newfound friendships alongside herself. Who is she as a pony? Is her magic the only redeeming quality about herself? Lost in more ways than one, Princess Luna is the last pony on her mind, but could very well be the one to guide her through the confusion of her odd outlook on the world...

Ponyville. That is where my fall from grace began. Twilight Sparkle and her insurmountable talent exposed me for the charlatan I was. After that inauspicious day, my shows were no longer a thunderous triumph of magic and trickery. They were a blighted sideshow—a mockery of the splendor they had once been.

In my desperation to retain the life I once held, I stooped lower and lower. I finally hit rock bottom on a remote rock farm. There, I assumed the life of some ordinary, mundane pony, hammering away at boulders until nothing but pebbles remained. It was beneath me, humiliating and degrading. The days dragged on, but my dignity fell no further. It was the bottom, the very bottom, where nothing could fall any lower.

If I had it to do over again, I would have clung to that humble bottom. I would have held on and never let go.

I made the worst mistake imaginable. In my desperate bid to claw my way back up to the graces I once knew, I put my faith in dark magic. While I may have found the bottom on that rock farm, that accursed amulet drug me even deeper, pulling me into the abyss of hell.

Thanks to RaylanKrios for pre-reading.

Submitted to Nonpareil Fiction's Early Autumn Contest.

Behind Celestia's graceful smile and kind eyes, secrets are hidden with a thousand years of practice. The whispered legends of her depravity hide a dark grain of truth, hidden in the mists of time: the clash with Nightmare Moon left her with scars that will never heal.

This was written before Season 4: it's in a Season 3 universe.
An eighth chapter, by Icebox Froggie, is on its way, and will be added to the story at some point.

Wonderful Cover Art By: PonySlayer, aka JonnySalami
Pre-Readers:
Mailbox Bomber (From Bronyville Forums)
Proofreaders:
Ininsaki (From Bronyville Forums)
Editors:
Craine
Sorren
The 11th Wonder

What makes a victim and what makes a villain?

After their defeat at the Battle of the Bands, the Dazzlings retreat into self-confinement to lick their wounds whilst they reassess their entire strange and fated lives from their beginnings in Equestria, up to the present. However, learning how to cope with the world and each other—living an immortal life in a powerless body—might just be more than any of them can bear.

Lines are blurred in this dark, historical, novelesque sirens origin story of innocence lost, heartache, betrayal, hope, and of course, beautiful music.
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(Featured on Equestria Daily: 7/11/15)
(Featured on FIMFiction front page: 9/23/16)

A cutie mark appears on a pony's flank when he or she finds that certain something that makes them different from every other pony. - Miss Cheerilee

While there may be some fillies out there crusading for cutie marks on what seems to be a daily basis, several of their classmates have already had theirs appear. Haven't you always wanted to find out how it happened? Of course you have.

(The colt characters don't really interest me; sorry, colt fans.)

Pinkie Pie's mind is out where the buses don't park any more. When her wacky-factor gets her in hot water with Applejack, someone close to Pinkie decides for an intervention. Pinkamena, Pinkie's evil side, wants a word.

Thanks to Rethkir for his proofreading. Go read his pony-words.
This story was deemed a Ruby By The Gem Hunters!
Approved by Twiight's Library!

The Chalk Family Cemetery is said to be the most haunted place in all of Equestria. On Nightmare Night eve Miss Cheerilee's class take a guided tour of the cemetery. An old-fashioned ghost story.

Immortality. Being able to live forever. But, do people really think about what that might imply?

One day your friends will die.

One day your planet will die.

One day your star will follow.

One day the never-ending force of entropy will destroy the universe.

Twilight's lived to see this.

This is the last story.

But there might just be time for one last adventure.

Author Note. This story was started many years ago. A lot of the older chapters are pretty atrocious by my own admission. I considered going back and editing it to shit but in the end I decided to keep it as it was for archival and posterity.

Hope you enjoy, this fic has been a journey. And i wish you all many happy new beginnings in whatever you do.

Fresh off being crowned Equestria's newest princess, Twilight discovers that there are plenty of new aspects to her life. Being bowed down to, new wings, and having fastest pegasus in Equestria as a marefriend are among the many.

One of these is the ability of everlasting memory. She will be able to recall any moment of her life, good or bad, and will always be able to do so as long as she is alive. To her... its a nightmare in disguise.

However, Rainbow Dash's perspective on this might change her mind.

Featured!

Winner of Surry's Eggcellent Egghead Competition
Thanks a million to my editor, Vertorm
Cover art by tarajelisha, found here

Twilight Sparkle has a double dilemma on her hooves. First, it is Rainbow's birthday soon and she doesn't have a present. Second, she really wants to have a relationship with the mare.

The plan?

A week long vacation, each day dedicated to the pegasus. Twilight has a plan of action laid out, and she is certain Rainbow will love it.

But what will become of the relationship between the two close friends?

(Not based at all on Journey to the Center of the Earth)

Accepted into Twilight's Library 12/8/13
Thanks to Bookish Delight for the proofreading and editing!
Submission into the 3rd Twidash Group Competition
Cover art by SharpieBoss can be found here