Anon has been living comfortably in Ponyville for a while now, but the novelty has been wearing off, and now he misses many of the entertainment options he had back home. He brings this up to Twilight, and together they arrange for a game night with her friends to try and make Anon feel more at home.

Unfortunately, Anon forgot just how badly human board games can strain or break even the toughest of friendships.

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Everypony sees trees as, well, trees. But they aren't just plain old plants. There's the Treehouse of Harmony, and the Castle of Friendship.

But there are also the trees that look ordinary. Although they may not have powers, they have thoughts. And only one pony knows that.

Edit: Featured on 2/26/23 - 2/27/23 for some reason I don't know. But thank you!

Written for the Arboreal Yearnings Contest and the Science Fiction Contest II.

As an orphaned Pegasus,you attempt to overcome several obstacles to hopefully find your friends and family! Will this even work out? Or will you be forever alone and destined to fail in life? Find out,and head on this journey today!

A pegasus has found herself in a dark, seemingly endless library. How did she get here?
More importantly, how can she get out?

Contesting third place in /mlp/'s PASTEJAM 2023. Only slightly edited to change awkward wording. Contains obvious sequel bait for when I feel like following up on it. I'm currently not happy about this story and will revisit it in the future.

STORY RESTRICTIONS:
The first sentence starts with: She set it ablaze...
The last sentence must end with: she blew out the candle.
Minimum length 700 words
No maximum length.

Applebuck season has come to Sweet Apple Acres once again, and Applejack is determined to get her work done as efficiently as possible. However, an appearance from a certain blue pegasus proves to be more trouble than she bargained for. {AppleDash Oneshot}

Michael's life is devoid of relationships. Be they familial, work, or romantic. But on one lucky night, he's given an opportunity.

"...but when the people grew resentful of the dark, when they shunned her sacred night,
her two halves united and she unleashed her wrath upon the fools and the ignorant,
alas, the sun god protected them from her wrath and trapped her within her ancient tapestry after a fight,
and she could only lament as she was forgotten to the sands of time..."

Luna has been waiting for over a thousand years to return.

A thousand years is a lot of time.

In that much time, many things could have happened.

Entry in scifi contest.

Fueled by a book on cryptozoology, Scootaloo is fascinated by all the things within, and decides she'll be the first to officially document the creatures within. She convinces her friends to come with so they can all get their cutie marks in creature hunting, hoping it would help them be braver. Thankfully they're just foal's tales, right?

It has become a tradition for Black Death, and Fluffy to host the entire family at their lair every year for the holidays. However, on one such holiday, a Hearth's Warming, a mistake was made by a member of the family that remains a source of endless retellings and good-natured family mockery.

Ellana Glacia. An alien being from another world across space and time. With powers untold and unknown, alongside some near blindness, is going to save Equestria without harming a soul. She finds herself upon the merry world of My little Pony... or not so merry. Everything is not as it should be. The ponies of Equestria act differently, talk differently, even have obscene morals compared to the show she once knew. Now there is talk of a war, a great war, the final apocalyptic war with shadow. An untold silly notion to her as a wishing star incarnate. The final days of Equestria seem upon the minds of every equine, diamond dog, and dragon in the land. As an army of stupid shadow beings led by the immortal twin kings of hate and fear bear down upon the queendom of Equestria, the last standing nation in the world, there seems to be no hope in sight. That is until Ellana takes a stand and shows the world that hope never truly dies, that hope is truly... bizarre and that the platinum dawn has come.