Rainbow Dash tries to keep her relationship secret.
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Featured 27 June - 29 June 2017!
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The cover art comes from the The Mysterious Mare Do Well episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
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Hello reader,

If you’ve managed to find this notebook and can actually read this text, I dare say I’ve either been saved or I’m dead at this point. Ignore the blood and ink blotches on the pages, I can’t say I’m writing this in my best condition right now. But I’m getting ahead of myself…

First, let me introduce myself… My name is Twilight Sparkle, protege to Equestria’s Princess Celestia, the Eternal Sun. The year is 1004 ANM... Sometime in the summer or spring back in Equestria if my companion is correct.

Well… I guess I’ll tell you a little bit of how I got here. It started with a spell from Star Swirl the Bearded, one of Equestria’s greatest magicians. I cast his spell to seemingly no effect, but when I woke the next day, I had found every one of my friend’s cuties marks to have swapped. It took so much work, but I… we managed to fix it all, leading us back to the spell once again, and fixing it. Then…

Forgive me, I’m starting to smudge the ink- this has just been so much for me. It hurts to recall all these memories.

We cast the spell once again, a fixed version, one that should have finished it's actually purpose. I was surrounded in a blinding light, glyphs appearing around me as it carried me up. I could recognize a handful of them, projection runes, location markings, just to name a few. Then… everything went white

This story features quite a number of dark or gruesome scences. While not enough to be marked as a straight dark fiction, it does have horrific moments.

Drifting Away is an alternate universe story taking place after the events of season 3, up to the point of Twilight's alicorn transformation. All events are canon up to that point.

I would like to thank my wonderful collaborator LonelyLullaby for their support and help in writing and improving this work. I couldn't have done half of this without them.

Twilight is assassinated. Repeatedly. If only anypony knew what the word "immortal" meant...

Now with a reading by Skijarama!
Now available in Spanish!

Originally written for the Writeoff Association's February contest, "The Twilight Zone."
Thanks to Not_A_Hat, Masked Ferret, Floydien, Chryssi, and ChappedPenguinLips for prereading.

Twilight knows that Rarity is a hopeless romantic, experienced through countless romance novels.
Twilight knows that Rarity has had some bad experiences with romance and courtship.
Twilight knows that Rarity still dreams of somepony to properly sweep her off her hooves.
Twilight has no idea how Rarity keeps missing the hints she keeps dropping.

Written for Monochromatic's Raritwi contest.

Cover art generously offered to all contestants and provided by the skilled Multiversecruise.

Top of the Feature Box on 05/05/17 and then for 72 hours straight: A huge thanks to everyone who liked or commented on this story.

After overhearing a rumor that his friendship with Fluttershy means stallions are too afraid to date her, Discord swears that he will find her the perfect mate. Unfortunately Discord has absolutely no idea what a pony wants in their special somepony. Happily, he has many pony friends now that he can ask for advice, but no matter how much advice he gets, nothing seems to go according to plan.

Story commissioned by Spamotron.

Edited/proof read by Carapace, SilverWolfIMHP, and Lucasmembrane.

This is somewhat outside my usual comfort zone, I don't write a lot of comedy and I don't write a lot of Discord, but I had fun doing it, so hopefully you will have fun reading it.

Update: There is a NSFW "deleted scene" from this story in my new clop shortfics collection, Quickies. Feel free to check it out if you're into that.

The Filly Guides believe in three basic tenets:

Love your fellow mare.

Do onto others as you would have them do to you.

No filly left behind.

And somewhere between those three would be the rule that any Filly Guide must have all their basic merit badges by the end of their first year. Then again, that rule may be written between the lines of the welcome pamphlet they hand out at orientation. Who can say?

What can be said is that out of all the little fillies of Troop Two-Oh-One, Tag-A-Long has just one scout short of just one simple badge. Easy-peasy.

Edited by: Chaotic Note, AlicornPriest

After Pony Magazine declares Twilight Sparkle to be the most eligible bachelorette in all of Equestria, Twilight finds herself buried under a veritable mountain of bouquets and love letters from all corners of the country. Enlisting her friends to separate the chaff from the wheat, each of them try to find a letter from an admirer who might be worthy of Twilight.

But the others are skeptical of Rainbow Dash's choice - a hastily written poem that came with a messy bouquet that somepony hoof-picked and threw together at the last minute. There's no way something like that could have come from a pony worthy of Twilight's love, right?

There is now a Spanish translation of this story, courtesy of Spaniard Kiwi

Pinkie Pie preemptively apologizes to Twilight: she's going to ruin their friendship.

Twilight agrees.

Pinkie suits her better as a girlfriend anyway.

When Celestia dares Luna to lick a pole out in the park, promising her that she can be the big spoon when they snuggle that night, Luna doesn't have to think twice.

Besides, it's only for a second, right?

Rainbow Dash was the Iron Wing. She was a war hero, the Slayer of Shadows, the Liberator of the Crystal Empire, the Wrath of Celestia. And depending on who you ask, she still is.

But the war is over. There's little need for a pony like her in peacetime. So she keeps telling herself that she needs to adjust, that she needs to find a new role to fill in the world that she saved. But Equestria seems content to let her remain what she has become, even though they have no need of a warrior.

"This isn't how it's supposed to be", is something she keeps telling herself. But every time she says it, the only thing she can reply is, "so what should it be?"

One whole year after the close of the war, and Rainbow Dash still doesn't have the answer.

Art by NCMares.