It was dark. Somewhere, beyond the cave, beyond her cage, it was raining. And the tide was coming in.

Content warning: implied past sexual abuse
Thank you to The Legendary Bill Cipher, Zontan, Lofty, Red Parade, Krazy, themoontonite, and Dioxin for their help with prereading and editing.

Written for a Quills and Sofa Speedwriting Group panic fiction contest, with the prompt "A martyr, a witness, and a cage". Feel free to join us on Discord here, we have a good time.

This story is a sequel to Portent

"You know," Sugar Belle began, looking into her son's eyes, "One of these days I'm not gonna wake up when you shake me."

Winner of the Palette Cleanser Contest for the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting Group . Originally written in an hour, this version has received some mild refinement.

"On those foggy mornings, I looked for the most beautiful thing I could see, the one thing the fog hadn't taken... And I held on tight."

Winner of themoontonite's Curated Contest for the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting Group . Originally written in an hour and presented here with minimal edits. Thanks to Red and Ruby for help with the description.
The prompt was 'Foggy Morning'

Twilight knew that when two ponies loved each other as much as she and Rarity did, moving in together would make everything better.
So why wasn't that happening now?

Winner of the 'Classic Contest' in the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting Group. Written in an hour and presented with minor edits here.

Twilight is taking tea, just like she used to with the princess. She's the princess' faithful student actually. Did you know that?

Winner of the 4^th Panic Fiction contest for the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting Group. Originally conceived and written in half an hour. This version here has undergone some very slight refinement.
The prompt was 'What's That Smell?'.

It's been a hundred years since Twilight was crowned. Most of her original friends are gone. Now, only Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy remain, each with a spark of something special keeping them past their time.

But unlike Twilight, neither of them has a claim to true immortality.

Winner of the 15th Quills and Sofas Speedwriting contest. The prompt was "A Worthy End." The contest was a two-parter, and each chapter was written in an hour, and then expanded slightly afterwards.

The Alogos Archipelago is rich in culture and history, dating back just as far as Equestria itself. Stories of heroes, gods, and monsters litter the little islands and saturate the very lives of the ponies who live and thrive there.

Some legends are better left alone, and some mysteries are better left undiscovered.

[Contains a few scenes of light gore in later chapters.]

This story is a sequel to Memory...

Twilight is unexpectedly given time to think back on her past, and tries to decide what could've been done better by her.

But it's too late, she can't fix this now...

There are a hundred recipes to serve to a changeling, but for Spike they all boil down to just one thing.

Written for the Make Spike Suffer Contest contest.

Special thanks to Astrarian for editing.

Cadence has reluctantly left her home to some far away land, leaving Shining behind. As the stallion sulks upon a solitary bench, he tries to take solace in the hopes of seeing her again...