The Apple family house is empty. Winona sits alone, waiting for the day it'll feel full again.

Featured as of 7/17/23

Twilight has never been a subtle pony, and Starlight has never been a shy one. So when the strength of their friendship leads to some fooling around, it's kind of hard to hide it from their friends. Especially when the bottled-up hormones of two ponies who haven't had much experience with that kind of thing mix together. Despite that, Twilight feels a little annoyed when Starlight always manages to take their friends' interruptions in stride.

Rated T for These Ponies Know What Sex Is (but do it offscreen)

The greatest beach in the world.

Nobody knows where it is. But it's a place you are bound to visit at some point.

Normally, you'd get to visit it just once.

River Republic border trooper Strawberry and her squad are considering what beach would be their ideal vacation spot this summer.

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Story for the Equestria at War 2023 writing contest!

Cadance is just starting her rule of the Crystal Empire, and there are many issues that need taking care of. One of them is making official diplomatic contacts with the neighbors, and it quickly proves to be both a headache and a substantial challenge; all of them heavily underestimate her.

After all, what use is love in politics and war?

Sunset loves the Washouts.

Despite being a unicorn, she loves their daring acrobatic and flying abilities, how they’re so confident and free in a way she never has been.

But one their members has caught her attention more than the others, and she’d do anything to get to see her, even try out highly experimental tech to try and teleport halfway around the world.

A Sci-Fi Sunset crushing on Rolling Thunder fic, done for the Sunset x Villain Sci-Fi Contest.

The post-apocalypse comes to Equestria, leaving half of the Equestrians and Dragons in desert. This is the story of Spike, a young Dragon who survives the apocalypse and runs in the craziest and most dangerous races of all time: R.A.C.E.

When Starlight’s magic is torn away from her by the Storm King, her friends are there to help her recover and adjust in her magically drained state but after having her magic taken away in a painful way that even Tirek could never do, it is questioned if she will truly be okay even if she gets her magic back.

As the summer of 1008ALB was ending, the clouds of a looming conflict gathered over an unsuspecting Equestria. Within a year the storm would break, but for now farmers brought in the harvest of their idyllic land as usual and Princess Twilight Sparkle, the recent recipient of a PhD in Thaumaturgy, was pondering her next move in life when a letter arrived from her old mentor. Enclosed were the details of a simple training mission: Host the annual Canterlot Land's Giving fair.

But being royal is never so simple as a smile and a wave, especially when Princess Celestia is making secret retirement plans.

This is a short story set in the Quenta Roccolië timeline, written for the The Sixth Annual Equestria at War Writing Contest with the prompt 'summer, warmth, light, and the sun'. This story however, also functions standalone if set shortly prior to series nine of FiM.
Thanks to Merk for betaing.
Cover art is a screencap

Helmi Lehtisaari was one one lucky deer. Born to a family of wealthy fur traders, she was blessed with her own personal corporate fiefdom in the bitter permafrost of the city of Feslott near the Changeling border. She had all the reason in the world to live her life in luxury and peace among her brethren in a city where dawn and dusk melted together.

But underneath it all, she yearned for a blistering noon sun. A place both warmer in heat and hearts than the bone-chilling cold of her home.

Then one day, she ventured forth to fulfil her glimmering dream; fighting both family and her nation, making new friends and maybe escape a continent burning in its own flame.

Her journey would take months, but for Helmi, it all felt like one long day.

Her personal solstice.

This is an entry for the Equestria at War 2023 Writing Contest. Image: https://derpibooru.org/images/3131110?q=deer

Most ponies aren’t blessed to be Alicorns. They are unfortunate to be born as Unicorns, Pegassi or, Celestia forbid, the most inferior of them all: Earth ponies.

However, Princess Celestia can reform them. She has the magic. She has the capability to turn them into Alicorns. To make them more than they were before. Better, stronger, faster, and most importantly: Immortal!

This story was featured on the front page.

This story has Youtube Audio Drama!

Written for the 1000 Words Contest.