Twilight Sparkle inadvertently causes an inter-dimensional royal incident. Rarity and Applejack spend the day together. Rainbow Dash makes a new friend. Sweetie Belle drinks tea. The world ends.
With her life-long experience as a merchant, Rarity joins a diplomatic envoy to broker peace between her people and an armada flying the banner of an exiled nation: Equestria.
Twilight won't settle for anything less than a perfect gift for her girlfriend. They have very different ideas about what that entails, 2nd place, Iron Author EFN 2018
I am adrift. I am lost. But I am lucky. I have a home, and safety, and security, and a future. I accept that. But maybe, just maybe, I shouldn't give up hope quite yet.
A deranged human journalist is invited to explore the newfound world of Equestria, the land of magic and whimsy and adventure. To the ire of everyone involved, and especially Twilight, he isn't particularly impressed.