It happened tonight as I looked at the readership of "Born that way":

My "didn't come close to winning the contest" contest entry has become the story which has generated the largest number of views within 24 hours of any of my stories, even the ones that won competitions, and, yes, even the ones that were featured on Equestria Daily!

Still an hour to go. I wonder if it will break 400 views in one day!

EDIT: it had 415 reads a few minutes before the day was up! Thanks for reading!

Okay, so I had one more story written for a contest. This one didn't win, but I finished polishing it up last night and so decided to publish it as the third in my "hat trick" long weekend. This is a story I wrote due to lingering questions I had following "the Crystalling". It's a bit of a world building exercise, and it presented me with the opportunity to write a segment in Starswirl the Bearded's own voice, as well as Twilight being Twilight with the celestial sisters. I really enjoyed

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